Built structures to aid hunting activities, such as drive lanes and hunting blinds, have been documented on every continent with the exception of Antarctica. This global phenomenon dates to at least 12,000 years ago and is found across time, space, environments, and cultures. While there is increasing study and documentation of such sites, they are prone to destruction and are not always recognized, resulting in a lack of large-scale comparative studies. However, this widespread pattern deserves greater attention as it can reveal unique facets of social and economic life, particularly in the context of hunter-gatherer societies. Such constructions are literal niche construction, created to increase the yield and predictability of wild animal resources. They represent an investment in the landscape, organization of communal labor, a detailed knowledge of animal behavior, all the while creating socioeconomic tensions concerning permanent facilities and who owns them and the resources they generate among otherwise egalitarian populations. This paper presents a global overview of such features, and the anthropological theory and archaeological method to systematically study such sites. This methodology will be applied to a brief case study, analyzing some of the oldest hunting architecture on the planet, those submerged beneath Lake Huron.

除南极洲外，每个大陆都记录了用于辅助狩猎活动的建筑结构，例如行车道和狩猎百叶窗。这种全球现象至少可以追溯到12,000年前，并存在于时间，空间，环境和文化中。尽管对此类场所的研究和文献越来越多，但它们很容易遭到破坏，而且并不总是被人们所认可，从而导致缺乏大规模的比较研究。但是，这种广泛分布的模式应引起人们的更多关注，因为它可以揭示社会和经济生活的独特方面，尤其是在猎人与采集者社会的背景下。这种构造是字面的利基构造，其创建目的是提高野生动物资源的产量和可预测性。它们代表着对景观的投资，公共劳动的组织，对动物行为的详细了解，同时也引起了关于永久性设施，谁拥有这些设施以及它们在其他均等人口中所产生的资源的社会经济压力。本文介绍了这些特征的全球概况，以及系统地研究这些遗址的人类学理论和考古方法。该方法将用于简短的案例研究，分析地球上一些最古老的狩猎建筑，这些建筑被淹没在休伦湖下面。