He spoke with John Sullivan, then a state archaeologist at Winterville Mounds near Greenville, Mississippi. And Sullivan, now with the federal Bureau of Land Management, continues to work with dogs and handlers to locate, and avoid the destruction of, Native American sites. The best results come when good human remains detection dog teams are combined with ground-penetrating radar, geophysical surveys and historical information, and – when feasible or desirable – confirmed with soil tests or excavation. Rescued shelter cat Sir Indiana Bones is a valued employee of the Museum of Osteology in Oklahoma City.

Sullivan was curious, too: “Paul asked me if dogs would pick up old stuff and I said, ‘Only one way to find out’. Each dog gave her final indications that day by either sitting or lying inside the flattened circle of the tombs, their noses pointing toward the burial chests within. The dogs’ archaeological expedition had been initiated by Vedrana Glavas, an archaeologist at Croatia’s University of Zadar. Since Pintar and Glavas’ Croatia study was published last year, several European and Croatian archaeologists have asked them for help in identifying sites, too. Glavas had to learn the scientific literature, such as scent theory, far outside the standard confines of archaeology; the same was true for Pintar and the field of archaeology.But the experiment in Croatia marked the start of one of the most careful inquiries yet carried out of an unusual archaeological method. I am fully insured, first aid trained and have spent much of quarantine attending online courses for dog walking. Panda, a Belgian Malinois with a “sensitive nose”, according to her handler, Andrea Pintar, had begun exploring the circular leftovers of a tomb when she suddenly froze, her nose pointed towards a stone burial chest. In her free time, she enjoys fishing, sailing, hunting mushrooms, yoga, kite flying, camping, gardening, hiking, riding a motorcycle, and attending music festivals. It is not only dogs that suffer from separation anxiety so I will keep my social media updated so you can see how much fun your doggo is having.

Defense attorney Karen Laine left an established law career to start from scratch in the real estate industry and later invested in a TV show. Glavas had suspected that a fifth site might hold a burial chest, and the dogs’ alerts, combined with excavation, proved her suspicion correct. On a sunny summer day in Croatia several years ago, an archaeologist and two dog handlers watched as two dogs, one after another, slowly worked their way across the rocky top of a wind-scoured ridge overlooking the Adriatic Sea.Perhaps the mountain itself – used as the base of each burial chest – held on to the scent for thousands of years. The American actor won people's hearts after acting as Stig Mohlin in Netflix's original film Tall Girl. The museum employees thought having an office cat would be a great idea, so they went to the Moore Animal Shelter found Indie, and brought him home. HGTV's Good Bones reality show was about the home renovation business Karen Laine built with her daughter, Mina Starsiak Hawk. Some archaeologists, forensic anthropologists, geologists, scientists – and even HRD dog handlers who know how challenging the work is – say they have great potential.

Panda and Mali aren’t the only dogs in the world that have helped locate human archaeological remains. We decided to go to our local shelter here, the Moore Animal Shelter and indy was just the cutest thing ever. They then asked Suzi Goodhope, a longtime cadaver-dog handler in Florida, to bring her experienced detection dog, Shiraz, a Belgian Malinois, to the site in 2013.This place is already cool as it is like working at the Skeleton Museum and then you add this cat to it. She wanted to spend more time on her favorite pastime activities — sailing, hanging out with her husband, and looking after her chickens.

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