| Summary: | FIG. 8. — Evidence of use-wear of initial processing of carcasses and skin treatment: A, chert scraper used to softened the skin, as shown by the mat and dense polish with perpendicular orientation from the edge, and the rounfding of the edge (100x); B, Chert microblade used to skinning a caracasses or defleshing a fresh skin as shown by the diffused polish mixed with oblique scars along the edge (100x); C, Quartz microblades used as a burin, to engrave a hard and dry material like bone or ivory, as shown by the abraded area, linear and discontinouous, observed on the modidied part of the edge (400x). Published as part of Houmard, Claire, Dionne, Marie-Michelle, Desrosiers, Pierre M. & Gendron, Daniel, 2013, The modus operandi of walrus exploitation during the Palaeoeskimo period at the Tayara site, Arctic Canada, pp. 15-36 in Anthropozoologica 48 (1) on page 26, DOI:10.5252/az2013n1a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5213303
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