Fox Exploitation by the Paleoeskimo at The Tayara Site, Nunavik

• Main Authors: Monchot, Hervé, Gendron, Daniel
• Other Authors: Histoire naturelle de l'Homme préhistorique (HNHP), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Université de Perpignan Via Domitia (UPVD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2011
• Subjects: [SHS.ARCHEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Archaeology and Prehistory; Arctic; Hudson; Hudson Strait; Nunavik; Qikirtaq Island; Alopex lagopus; Arctic Anthropology; Arctic Fox; caribou
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-03217473

International audience 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, Nunav...