>Dear Ana: I can't help you with dog DNA, but merely wanted to add that
killing a dog by poisoning would seem to be a lot of trouble. The normal
way of killing dogs, especially puppies, is by drowning them -- which
leaves no marks (except possibly on the one doing the drowning). -- DB
> Dear zooarch,
>
> I have a really interested Calcolithic assemblage where the conservation
> is exceptional. It is a multiple human burial accumulated in a period of
> around 350 years with more than 1000 individuals. Some of the human
> burials have dogs next to them. They are complete skeletons, mostly
> females (as we have found just a couple of bacumulums) and we have two
> size groups: 37 individuals with a medium size (height 42-50cm) and
> another 4 individuals with a larger size (64-70cm). At the same time, in
> any of these dogs we havenĀ“t found cut marks or anthropogenic modification
> to cause their dead. So, we assume that they could have been poisoned in
> order to be buried at the same time that the person.
>
> My questions are the next:
>
> 1. We would like to make some DNA as we think we could have domestic
> dogs as well as (quieted??) wolfs buried. Do you know anyone working on
> this?
> 2. As we haventĀ“ found any evidence of a violent dead, we would like
> to know if there would be possible to confirm if the dogs were poisoned.
> Could be the analysis of trace elements or other gives any clue, for
> example?
> 3. Do you have examples of similar multiple burials with these
> characteristics?
>
>
> All the suggestions will be welcome,
> All the best,
> Ana
>
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