Current Research: Far North

procedures would have required Webster to examine Champlain's own account of the hunt more carefully, which includes looking at it in the broader context of Champlain's entire account of his expedition against the Iroquois. If Webster's other figures are correct, the total energy expended on this hunt must have been considerably less than the calories yielded by it. Hence there is no evidence that the Hurons were prepared to hunt at the cost of "considerable energetic loss" and no such curious behavior to be explained. If archaeologists are to fill pages of their leading journals with ecological arguments based on historical data, they should be careful to use such data properly.