"Face-to-face with a Neolithic dog" Topic
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| Tango01 | 26 Oct 2019 8:56 p.m. PST |
"Using facial reconstruction technology to recreate the visages of long-ago people is a fashionable trend in archaeology. Now for the first time that technology has been applied to man's best friend: a Neolithic dog whose skeletal remains were found in a tomb on Orkney. Built between 3000 and 2400 B.C., the Cuween Hill chamber tomb on Orkney was first excavated in 1901. The cairn features a passageway leading to a central chamber with four small cells opening off it. The remains of at least eight people were found inside — five skulls in the central chamber, two in two of the side cells, one at the entrance — and the remains of numerous dogs. Skulls and bones from 24 dogs were discovered on the floor of the central chamber. Radiocarbon testing dated them to 500 years after the tomb was built, which means they were added to the cairn by residents, likely for symbolic or ritual purposes…"
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| Choctaw | 29 Oct 2019 10:54 a.m. PST |
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| Tango01 | 29 Oct 2019 10:42 p.m. PST |
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| Tango01 | 15 Nov 2019 8:32 p.m. PST |
Seems those are the owners… (smile)
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