Dr Balme says most of the records considered in the study and anthropological observations suggest Aboriginal men did not take dingoes out when they went hunting because they would scare away large animals. Image: Kim
Posted on 10/24/2015 6:23:20 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
In modern society dogs are often referred to as "man's best friend" but according to an archaeological review early Aboriginal society sported a similar relationship between women and dingoes (Canis lupus dingo).
The study by UWA and ANU suggests people formed close bonds with dingoes soon after the dogs' arrival on the mainland roughly 4000 years ago, with the dogs enabling women to contribute more hunted food.
UWA archaeologist Jane Balme, who led the research, says it is thought the first dingoes arrived on watercraft with people from South East Asia.
"What they're doing on the boat is not clear but if you're on a small boat 4000 years ago or so with people, then they probably came here as a domesticated animal," she says.
"But then when they got here they went wild."
Dr Balme says previously collected DNA evidence suggests dingoes could have been introduced at two locations, one in the Kimberley and one in the north-east of Australia.
She says it is likely Aboriginal people quickly formed close bonds with the dogs and early European colonisers recorded that dingoes were used by Aboriginals for a variety of purposes including as blankets and watch dogs...
Dr Balme says most of the records considered in the study and anthropological observations suggest Aboriginal men did not take dingoes out when they went hunting because they would scare away large animals.
But Dr Balme's and ANU archaeologist Sue O'Connor's study reveals Aboriginals started to feed on a wider variety of small animals after the dingoes arrived in Australia.
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencewa.net.au ...
Dr Balme says most of the records considered in the study and anthropological observations suggest Aboriginal men did not take dingoes out when they went hunting because they would scare away large animals. Image: Kim
“What they’re doing on the boat is not clear”
Photography has come along ways since then.
So, the dingoes maybe did the actual killing of small game for the women?
During the 1777 campaign against Burgoyne, one of the patriots took his dog along on the march. After the dog became too tired to walk, his owner carried him. The owner's brother-in-law, also on the march, seemed to be amused by this care for his pet. The dog's owner explained that in case of necessity they could eat the dog.
During the 1777 campaign against Burgoyne, one of the patriots took his dog along on the march. After the dog became too tired to walk, his owner carried him. The owner's brother-in-law, also on the march, seemed to be amused by this care for his pet. The dog's owner explained that in case of necessity they could eat the dog.
Remember that notorious case from decades ago where a dingo carried off a baby from a campsite and the police didn’t believe the mother and sentenced her to a long jail term for murder. Later on, campers found the baby’s bib in a dingo cave with bloodstains on it.
Dingoes are an old breed. Like Basenjis, used for hunting.
The whole thing sounds like cryptonuttery.
They are muslims worst enemies.
Do the math...
But it ATE MY BABY!!!
Nice Wolf Eared Doggy....
While the anthropogenic impact on global species diversity is clear, the role of ancient human populations in causing extinctions is more controversial. New data presented this week at the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology meetings in Dallas, Texas, implicates early humans in the extinction of large mammals, birds and lizards in Australia. More precise dating of these extinction events places them 14,000 years after the first arrival of humans in Australia... Alroy estimated the likely time-range during which the extinction occurred based on the distribution of radiocarbon dates. He found that the megafauna disappeared between 27 and 40 thousand years ago. Using a similar method, he estimated that the first humans arrived between 50 and 61 thousand years ago. This confidently puts humans on Australia when the megafaunal extinctions occurred. The timings also suggest that there was a 14,000 year lag between the first appearance of humans and their impact on the megafauna.
In the middle of Australia there is a group of three or four meteorite craters called the Henley craters. They're like the Arizona meteorite crater -- not so big, but there are several of them -- and, like in Arizona, the land was scattered with pieces of iron meteorite. I think the [inaudible] dating very slow growing desert plants. They believe that the date is about 5000 years ago -- the formation of the craters. The Aboriginal name for this area is the "Place Where The Sun Walked on the Earth" -- they must have seen it!
Abstract: More than 85 percent of Australian terrestrial genera with a body mass exceeding 44 kilograms became extinct in the Late Pleistocene. Although most were marsupials, the list includes the large, flightless mihirung Genyornis newtoni. More than 700 dates on Genyornis eggshells from three different climate regions document the continuous presence of Genyornis from more than 100,000 years ago until their sudden disappearance 50,000 years ago, about the same time that humans arrived in Australia. Simultaneous extinction of Genyornis at all sites during an interval of modest climate change implies that human impact, not climate, was responsible.
LOL!
That’s terrible
“What they’re doing on the boat is not clear”
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Spanish conquistadors/explorers that came to the Americas had pigs on their ships as a food source. Some escaped, became feral and rapidly reproduced.
Since the dingoes were on boats from SE Asia, I’d guess they were also the people’s food source. Some escaped and became wild.
Bigfoot has domesticated Hell Hounds too—so they say on Mountain Monster Hunters.
The real point is to validate women as equal to men however possible
Science especially anthropology and of course environmental have nothing to do with empiricism anymore
Does any science unless commissioned by a for profit grantor?
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