A 3000 Year Old Dog Burial in Timor-Leste

Datos Bibliográficos

ID11955905
AutoresAntonio Uriarte González (0000-0001-9165-957X, Australian National University, autor de correspondencia), Antonio González (0000-0002-5900-3965), Geoffrey Clark (0000-0002-9055-655X, Australian National University), Sue O''Connor (0000-0001-9381-078X, Australian National University), Elizabeth Matisoo-Smith (0000-0002-3500-8307, University of Otago), Lisa Matisoo-Smith
Año2013
Volumen76
Número1
Páginas13-20
Fecha de publicación2013-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAustralian Archaeology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0312-2417 • E-ISSN: 2470-0363
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/03122417.2013.11681961
OpenAlexW2234830976
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas19
Referencias citadas24

The domestic dog (Canis familiaris) is considered to be the oldest domesticated animal in the world. It arrived in Island Southeast Asia and Australia-New Guinea relatively late in the Holocene, though the timing and means of its dispersal remain unclear. We report a dog burial from Timor-Leste dated to ~3000 cal. BP. Morphometric analysis demonstrates strong affinities between this individual and contemporary domestic dog groups, and particularly with the ‘village dog’ type, indicating it was indeed domesticated, rather than feral-wild. Isotope values which indicate a diet dominated by terrestrial plant foods rather than hunted foods suggest an association between the Timor dog and agriculturalists. Results suggest that the range expansion of C. familiaris in the Indo-Pacific is associated with the dispersal of farming groups in prehistory

Archaeology · Biological dispersal · Biology · Canis · Domestication · Ethnology · Geography · New guinea · Population · Prehistory · Range (aeronautics · Southeast asia · Timor leste · Demography · History · Human-Animal Interaction Studies · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies · Wildlife Ecology and Conservation · Ecology