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.”
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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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