A UMaine graduate student’s discovery of a bone from the oldest domesticated dog yet identified in the Americas was featured on CBC Radio’s Quirks and Quarks show Samuel Belknap found the 9,400-year-old bone in a paleofecal sample, providing early evidence man considered dogs as food sources.
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Discovery News, the website of television’s Discovery Channel, wrote about a UMaine graduate student’s discovery of the oldest domesticated dog in the Americas, a find based on bone fragments the student discovered a human paleofecal sample. The New York Times also ran a story about the find, as did the Pakistan Daily Mail.
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A UMaine graduate student’s discovery of the oldest domesticated dog ever found in the Americas was mentioned on the website Physorg.com. Samuel Belknap, a student in the department of anthropology and Climate Change Institute, found a fragment of bone from the skull of a dog. The bone was directed dated at 9,400 years old.
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The Lewiston Sun Journal noted a talk being given by George Jacobson, UMaine professor emeritus of biology, ecology and climate change, on “Influences of Climate Variability on Maine’s Forests — Past and Future” at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, February 3, at the Farmington Town Office. Jacobson was the director of UMaine’s Climate Change Institute for nearly […]
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Contact: Samuel Belknap, Samuel.Belknap@umit.maine.edu A University of Maine graduate student has discovered evidence of the oldest identifiable domestic dog in the Americas. Samuel Belknap III, a graduate research assistant working under the direction of Kristin Sobolik in UMaine’s Department of Anthropology and Climate Change Institute, found a 9,400-year-old skull fragment of a domestic dog during […]
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