Barrenlands Treeless tundra north of the Prairies, west of Hudson Bay, east of the Mackenzie River and south of the Arctic Ocean. Dene call it dechinule, ‘land of little sticks’.
Beamer Long bone split lengthwise and sharpened along its length to remove hair from skins.
Blade Pressure-removed parallel-sided stone flake less (microblade) or greater (macroblade) than 10 mm in width.
Burin (spalls) Small grooving or planning tool for shaping bone and antler. Sharpened by removing spalls to create a new cutting edge.
Chitho Flat oval scraper of lightly abrasive stone, used to soften hides for clothing.
Core Roughly chipped rock or bone mass used to make flakes from which tools are made.
Eulachon From Chinook language. Also candlefish because it contains so much oil it can burn, is a small anadromous smelt (Thaleichthys pacificus) caught during Northwest Coast spawning, and an important human food source and trade item when processed as an oil.
Flesher Long bone with diagonally cut and serrated end for removing fat from a hide.
Hammerstone A cobble used to break cores for flakes or long bones to extract marrow fat.
Point Tip attached to a lance, spear, or dart used to kill game.
Pushplane Steep-sided, turtle-shell-shaped stone tool used to plane wood.
Scraper Steep-sided tool for stripping membrane from a hide; precedes chitho use.
Taltheilei Named after Taltheilei Narrows draining the East Arm into Great Slave Lake.
Thrusting lance Lance kept in the hand and used for jabbing caribou to mortally wound.
Uniface Artifact chipped on one or both (biface) sides, usually applied to stone knives.
Wedge Tapered flaked stone for splitting bone, antler, or wood.
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