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Cadaver dogs, archaeologist's best friends. The use of dogs as bio-detectors in archaeological prospection

It is generally known that dogs can be used for a variety of purposes such as explosives, drugs, blood or disease detection, or that they can find missing persons. However, it is less known that dogs have abilities to detect graves from different periods. Human Remains Detection (HRD) or cadaver dogs are trained to detect and indicate the strongest concentrations of odor that is characteristic for human body at various stages of decomposition. Since the smell of human decomposing odor differs from odor of other decomposing mammals, properly trained dogs can locate positions of human burials. Dogs trained in this way are mostly used to help solving criminal cold cases and they are usually employed by the police. However, research on the use of HRD dogs to detect and locate older historic or prehistoric burials was very limited. Since recent studies demonstrate that human decomposition smell can be very persistent, we have started testing the capabilities of dogs noses and developing the methodology of training and work in archaeology within the “Archaeological dog project”. This talk will present the methodology of work with HRD or cadaver dogs in archaeology and also the results of some research at archaeological sites from various periods. The main goal of this talk is to present the general use and possibilities of Human remains detection dogs in locating burial sites from various periods and demonstrate how dogs can be used as bio-detectors in archaeology in the same manner as many other tools and techniques that are common in archaeology.

Cadaver ; dogs ; archaeology ; HRD dogs ; prospection ;

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