Ethnocynology is the study of dogs within past and present human societies.

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View fullsize My research was submitted to a film festival! }}}———————————>>> A really cool French dude I excavated with 10 years ago, Jean Guilleux, recently contacted me and was curious t
View fullsize A recent paper came out claiming that Clovis peoples and their projectiles couldn’t have killed or impaled mammoths. So Dr. Devin Pettigrew (@ar.atlatl) decided to prove that claim false by testing atlatl velocities. And so he recruited @do
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View fullsize It’s not every day you get your face painted by a follower! This is awesome!! Check out Stevie at @appalachianbard thanks dude!! #Portrait #ArtistPortrait #DigitalIllustration #DigitalArt
View fullsize Love — Love is a chemical reaction in your brain. Some might find that reductionist. I find it beautiful. When I see someone I love, my eyes take in the light waves that reflect off their person, which my brain processes into an image. My olfa
View fullsize I got ANewBus ________ Get it? Like the jackal god? K cool. Anyway, here’s my new bus. I bought the old bus, did a lot of maintenance to the engine, stripped it out, and started the process of converting it. However a friend sent me a link
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View fullsize Oldest visual evidence of domestic dogs. ••• These 8,000 year old petroglyphs are the oldest known depictions of canids on leashes! The Saudi Arabian engravings are the earliest known depictions of dogs on leads and suggests that huma
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View fullsize WussssDa Dhole is? (Asian Wild Dogs) ••••• The Dhole (Cuon alpinus) is also known as the Indian Wild Dog. Though they look similar, they’re not foxes (Vulpes), nor conventional wolves/dogs (Canis). They exist in their
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View fullsize The Road: the Dog Massive spoilers. The Road, based on the novel of the same name by Cormac McCarthy, is.....bleak. The story follows two characters known as the “Man” and the “Boy.” The two live in a post-apocalyptic North
View fullsize Dog Domestication Theory }}———> There are several theories regarding the domestication of dogs. I’ll summarize some today. A) “The Flight Distance Hypothesis and Self-Domestication.” The idea that wolves with i
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View fullsize “Dog” Travois Pt 3: Horses With the arrival of the Spanish and other Europeans beginning in 1492, it wasn't long before some of their horses (for various reasons) made their way back into the wild. If you remember from my horse post
View fullsize Dog Travois Pt 2: Technology and Culture ••• The travois was employed by the nomadic peoples of the plains for centuries and it’s been documented that the Sioux, Cheyenne, Blackfoot, Comanche, and Pawnee were still using dog
View fullsize The Dog and the Travois ••• Before the invention of the wheel, ancient humans could only haul what they could carry. Keep in mind that our ancestors would have had to carry food, water, tool materials, skins, structural poles, and the
View fullsize 𝙃𝙪𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧-𝙂𝙖𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙧 𝙀𝙘𝙤𝙡𝙤𝙜𝙮 Art by @danburrillustration ••• Behavioral ecology posits that animals behave in a way in which they seek to optimize the amount of resources they gain for their energy exerted. In the sam
View fullsize Dogs, Humans, and Creation ——— The Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) tell a story that says during the creation, dogs had the chance to be human. However, due to their promiscuous and uncleanly behavior, dogs were denied this privilege. Ta