Bone Weathering in a Periglacial Environment: The Tayara Site (KbFk-7), Qikirtaq Island, Nunavik (Canada)

Bone weathering analysis of the Palaeoeskimo Tayara site (Qikirtaq Island, Nunavik, Canada) documents site taphonomy in the Arctic periglacial environment. Like a majority of sites in the eastern Canadian Arctic, Tayara has a faunal assemblage dominated by marine mammals (seal, walrus, and beluga wh...

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Published in:ARCTIC
Main Authors: Todisco, Dominique, Monchot, Hervé
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 2009
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.14430/arctic9
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