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Brownbag Lectures: Dog the Hunter: Climate Change, Hunting Adaptations and Dog Burials in Prehistory
- Location: ISM Research & Collections Center, Springfield
- Date: Wednesday, October 27, 2010, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Presented by Angela Perri, Department of Archaeology, Durham University, United Kingdom
When were dogs first given proper burials? Why were they buried? Why are there clusters of dog burials from prehistoric hunter-gatherer groups across the world during the same time period?
Current research on the Pleistocene-Holocene climate change transition shows dramatic global environmental effects, but despite much work on this change, little is known about how human foragers adapted their hunting strategies to this new environment and its prey species. Preliminary findings suggest significant parallel developments, including the intentional burial of domesticated dogs, characterized forager adaptations to new Holocene conditions worldwide, specifically in the temperate forests of three regions: the MidSouth U.S., Northern Europe and Japan. It is suggested that these burials represent the importance of domesticated hunting dogs as part of the closed-forest hunting adaptation.
One of our Brownbag Lectures
Weekly lectures held at the Museum's Research and Collections Center. Lectures are usually held during lunchtime on Wednesday. The RCC is located at 1011 E. Ash Street in Springfield. Access to the building is from 10 ½ Street (between Ash and Laurel Streets), where there is ample visitor parking in the west parking lot. For more information, please call 217-785-0037. Brown Bag Lectures are free and open to the public.
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