Brings to mind the Twilight Zone episode "The Hunt", with Hyder Simpson refusing to be separated from his beloved hunting dog, Rip, to his eternal benefit.
Of course they are valued hunting companions, that still is true. I think the more obvious take away is that they loved and respected the dogs like family.
If it weren’t for the dogs there wouldn’t be as much meat. It’s like your dog making sure you had food instead of you going to the store and making sure it has food. They were not only contributing family members, they were the providers.
In total, Perri uncovered over 100 burial records until the advent of agriculture around 2350 BP. After this, canine burials were only recorded as random piles of bones, suggesting dogs were eaten and just discarded.
Ancient discovery suggests strange humans might have loved their dogs??? HUH?????
Time and time again we, from history and personal experience, see that people formed very strong bonds with their dogs. Shit, without dogs, we'd never have been as successful at hunting as we were. But every few years, some scientist posits that humans might have LIKED their dogs (usually after discovering a grave marked "I loved my dog" or something) and act like it's a CRAZY DISCOVERY????
The wording might just be standard for research papers. It might be one of those things where you can’t exactly prove it unless you were there, but using a whole host of evidence you can strongly suggest that it was likely.
...and after the advent of agriculture in the same area in this study, dogs remains no longer displayed gravesign and were instead just discarded bones with signs or butchery. These same peoples' descendants did not bury their dogs with any ceremony, they just ate them. Its almost like human feeling toward domesticated animals is NOT universal and it IS an interesting and anthropologically meaningful finding when people make significant effort to honor their dying.
People always bring up how dogs evolved to serve humans but never seem to consider that humans that can train dogs have improved fitness over other humans of the times.
Probably because that's really stupid in pre-modern times, people didn't need training dogs as an extra reason for physical fitness when life was frequent movement/ physical labor.
Lol, I was talking about evolutionary fitness, as in an evolutionary pressure that benefited only the humans with the empathy and leadership necessary to train dogs to help them hunt more efficiently.
My bad, I must have failed to explain that well enough.
She found that around 9,000 years ago, the Jōmon buried their hunting dogs in shell middens - large piles of sea shells - on low-laying coastal paths. According to Perri, the dogs were buried like people and placed singly in arranged postures
Considering the lack of many tools at the time, dogs were crucial to complete a successful hunting
Brings to mind the Twilight Zone episode "The Hunt", with Hyder Simpson refusing to be separated from his beloved hunting dog, Rip, to his eternal benefit.
Dogs were the first animals humans domesticated, starting around 14,000 years ago. So yeah — dogs really do hold a uniquely special place for us.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog#Domestication
Of course they are valued hunting companions, that still is true. I think the more obvious take away is that they loved and respected the dogs like family.
If it weren’t for the dogs there wouldn’t be as much meat. It’s like your dog making sure you had food instead of you going to the store and making sure it has food. They were not only contributing family members, they were the providers.
Bad end…
My favorite quote is from Will Rogers:
“If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.”
You have researched Animal Husbandry
I am fond of pigs
MONEY!
Probably one of the most fascinating pieces of the Internet: famous quotes followed by "money," often spelled strangely.
The ancient Jamón people used to do this with pigs
These studies are so wild to me.
Time and time again we, from history and personal experience, see that people formed very strong bonds with their dogs. Shit, without dogs, we'd never have been as successful at hunting as we were. But every few years, some scientist posits that humans might have LIKED their dogs (usually after discovering a grave marked "I loved my dog" or something) and act like it's a CRAZY DISCOVERY????
Are aliens writing these papers?
The wording might just be standard for research papers. It might be one of those things where you can’t exactly prove it unless you were there, but using a whole host of evidence you can strongly suggest that it was likely.
...and after the advent of agriculture in the same area in this study, dogs remains no longer displayed gravesign and were instead just discarded bones with signs or butchery. These same peoples' descendants did not bury their dogs with any ceremony, they just ate them. Its almost like human feeling toward domesticated animals is NOT universal and it IS an interesting and anthropologically meaningful finding when people make significant effort to honor their dying.
Have you written an academic paper for publishing before? You have to word things certain ways.
Wasnt there a black lives matters ad saying whites loved dogs more than blacks?
People always bring up how dogs evolved to serve humans but never seem to consider that humans that can train dogs have improved fitness over other humans of the times.
Probably because that's really stupid in pre-modern times, people didn't need training dogs as an extra reason for physical fitness when life was frequent movement/ physical labor.
Lol, I was talking about evolutionary fitness, as in an evolutionary pressure that benefited only the humans with the empathy and leadership necessary to train dogs to help them hunt more efficiently.
My bad, I must have failed to explain that well enough.
So they dumped their dead dogs onto their family's outhouse heap as a mark of respect?
No. They arranged them neatly, as if asleep, in the garbage heaps where they threw their smelly clam shells.
As a modern human, we might find that disrespectful, but if you think about it, it's like burying a human in their favorite buffet.
So, like a heap of all you can eat sweet and sour pork? If you put it that way, sounds great actually
No.
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