Burying Dogs in Ancient Cis-Baikal, Siberia: Temporal Trends and Relationships with Human Diet and Subsistence Practices

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Losey, Robert J ^a   Garvie Lok, Sandra ^a   Leonard, Jennifer A ^b   Katzenberg, M Anne ^c   Germonpré, Mietje ^d   Nomokonova, Tatiana ^e   Sablin, Mikhail V ^f   Goriunova, Olga I ^g   Berdnikova, Natalia E ^g   Savel'ev, Nikolai A ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^d ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^f ZOOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^g IRKUTSK STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; NITROGEN; RADIOISOTOPE;

AQUATIC FAUNA; ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; DIETARY INTAKE; DOG; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FORAGING; HUMAN RELATION; NEOLITHIC; NONHUMAN; POSTHUMOUS CARE; RADIOMETRIC DATING; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SUBSISTENCE PRACTICE; TIME; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BONE; CHEMISTRY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DIET; DNA SEQUENCE; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPE; HISTORY; HUMAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; ARCHAEOLOGY; BONE AND BONES; BURIAL; CULTURE; DIET; DOGS; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPES; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RADIOMETRIC DATING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SIBERIA; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84877848501     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0063740     Document Type: Article

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