Sentences with phrase «botai zooarchaeologist»
Radiocarbon dating of the dogs» bones shows they were 1,500 years older than thought, zooarchaeologist Angela Perri said April 13 at the annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
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«It fills in a missing piece of the puzzle of early human - dog relationships, and even domestication itself,» adds Angela Perri, a zooarchaeologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.
Domestication, says zooarchaeologist Alan Outram of the University of Exeter in England, «is best looked at with a more cultural definition.»
Woldekiros, the project's zooarchaeologist, studied the chicken bones at a field lab in northern Ethiopia and confirmed her identifications using a comparative bone collection at the Institute of Paleoanatomy at Ludwig Maximillian University in Munich.
«I think it's a perfectly credible and logical case,» says Darcy Morey, a zooarchaeologist at Radford University in Virginia who has studied ancient dog burials.
«In lieu of finding a bell around its neck, this is about as solid evidence as one can have that cats held a special place in the lives and afterlives of residents of this site,» says zooarchaeologist Melinda Zeder of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., who was not involved with the study.
«In total, I recovered the remains of 14 individual cimicids, but they were not the bedbug we all know and love from hotel rooms,» said study researcher Martin Adams, a zooarchaeologist who founded the consultancy Paleoinsect Research.
He teamed up with longtime Botai zooarchaeologist Alan Outram from the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom, and together they discovered an ancient corral at the site, another sign of domestication.
That retrenching has already prevented Angela Perri, a zooarchaeologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, from expanding on a remarkable finding she made after finding a box at the Illinois museum labeled «puppy burial.»
The Normans established scriptoriums in many monasteries in the 11th century, and their appetite for animal skins must have had a «huge impact» on the animals raised, notes Naomi Sykes, a zooarchaeologist at the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom.
Among denier blogs, authors found that the most popular source for material was a blog called Polar Bear Science by Crockford, a zooarchaeologist.