Fox Exploitation by the Paleoeskimo at The Tayara Site, Nunavik

• Main Authors: MONCHOT, Hervé, GENDRON, Daniel
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: University of Wisconsin Press 2011
• Subjects: Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Archéologie et Préhistoire; Arctic; Hudson; Hudson Strait; Nunavik; Qikirtaq Island; Alopex lagopus; Arctic Fox; caribou
• Online Access: https://oskar-bordeaux.fr/handle/20.500.12278/32081

While prehistoric hunting of marine mammals and caribou by eastern Arctic prehistoric groups is well documented, the relationship between Paleoeskimo groups and the fox has received little attention. The open-air Dorset site of Tayara (KbFk-7), in southern Hudson Strait, Nunavik, is exceptional in t...