Ancient Dogs

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2025
01
Apr

Old Dogs, New Tricks: An Overview of Canine Zooarchaeology

Join us in-person at Catalyst Creative Collective in the Tucson Mall, Tuesday, April 1, 2025, when Brandi Bethke (Laboratory Director for the Oklahoma Archeological Survey) will discuss “Old Dogs, New Tricks: An Overview of Canine Zooarchaeology.”   Directions: Catalyst Creative Collec...
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2025
04
Mar

Sled Dogs in the Southwest: Fact or Fable?

Join us in-person at Catalyst Creative Collective in the Tucson Mall, Tuesday, March 4, 2025, when Martin H. Welker (Assistant Professor of Anthropology & Assistant Curator of Zooarchaeology) will discuss “Sled Dogs in the Southwest: Fact or Fable?” Domestic dogs have become deeply embedded ...
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2025
04
Feb

Connecting and Dividing: Dogs and European Colonists, Enslaved Africans, and Native Americans in the Chesapeake Bay Region, 1600-1800s

Join us in-person at Catalyst Creative Collective in the Tucson Mall, Tuesday, February 4, 2025, when Matthew E. Hill (Director of Undergraduate Studies & Professor of Anthropology) will discuss “Connecting and Dividing: Dogs and European Colonists, Enslaved Africans, and Native Americans in t...
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2024
03
Dec

The History of the Coast Salish Woolly Dogs

Join us in-person at Catalyst Creative Collective in the Tucson Mall, Tuesday, December 3, 2024, when Audrey T. Lin (Gerstner Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Scholar) will discuss “The History of the Coast Salish Woolly Dogs.” Dr. Lin integrates genomics and Indigenous knowledge to illu...
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2024
12
Nov

Weaving the Hair of the Dog: White Dog Hair Textiles in the Ancient Southwest

Join us in-person at Catalyst Creative Collective in the Tucson Mall, Tuesday, November 12, 2024, when Laurie Webster (anthropologist and independent scholar) will discuss “Weaving the Hair of the Dog: White Dog Hair Textiles in the Ancient Southwest.” White dog hair played a unique role in Sout...
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2024
01
Oct

Celebrating the Song Dogs

Join us in-person at Catalyst Creative Collective in the Tucson Mall, Tuesday, October 1, 2024, when R.E. Burrillo (Archaeologist & Research Associate) will discuss “Celebrating the Song Dogs.” This season opener on domesticated dogs and their many roles across space and time in the Americas...
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2011
16
Jan

Graduate Student Identifies Earliest Known Evidence of the Domestic Dog in North America

Graduate Student Identifies Earliest Known Evidence of the Domestic Dog in North America Samuel Belknap III, a University of Maine graduate research assistant working under the direction of Kristin Sobolik, found a 9,400-year-old skull fragment of a domestic dog during analysis of an intact human ...
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