The Modus Operandi of Walrus Exploitation during the Palaeoeskimo Period at the Tayara Site, Arctic Canada

• Published in: Anthropozoologica
• Main Authors: Monchot, Hervé, Houmard, Claire, Dionne, Marie-Michelle, Desrosiers, Pierre M., Gendron, Daniel
• Other Authors: ORIENT ET MÉDITERRANÉE : Textes, Archéologie, Histoire (OM), Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1)-École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Collège de France (CdF (institution))-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Préhistoire et Technologie (PréTech), Université Paris Nanterre (UPN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Laval Québec (ULaval)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2013
• Subjects: Zoo archaeology; hunting; butchering; use-wear traces; Nunavik; Quebec; Tayara; bone technology; technologie osseuse; traces d'utilisation; activités de boucherie; chasse; archéozoologie; [SHS.ARCHEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Archaeology and Prehistory; Arctic; Canada; Morse; Arctique*; Détroit d'Hudson; Dorsétien; Odobenus rosmarus; morse; walrus*
• Online Access: https://hal.parisnanterre.fr//hal-01529128; https://doi.org/10.5252/az2013n1a1

International audience Thanks to its high nutritional potential and huge ivory canines, walrus (Odobenus rosmarus) appears to have been a key resource in the subsistence economy of Dorset groups. However present archaeological data are sparse and a more global analysis of its exploitation by the Pal...