By Geophile
Found this today and thought I'd post it. I'm not sure how these dogs were supposed to detect burials if they were centuries old. I hope that not many people who are contemplating disassembling their rock mounds will see this and think it's valid. I'm not sure what state this site was in but it looks western.
And of course, the fact that they're not burials, which they very well may not be, doesn't mean they're not worth preserving. But that's probably even harder to make people understand.
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This is about rock piles and stone mound sites in New England. A balance is needed between keeping them secret and making them public. Also arrowheads, stone tools and other surface archaeology.
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As pointed out in these articles,it seems like trained dogs can detect burials even thousands of years old.
ReplyDeletehttp://k9forensic.org/historical.html
I find it hard to believe that decomposed human scent would remain in the soil after hundreds of years.
It looks like it would be a simple solution to an old problem.
Neat! If it is true, there is no reason to assume it is the original human scent - after 100 years it could change but still be detectable by dogs. For example I read that a body leaves behind a higher level of potassium in the soil. Maybe they can smell that?
ReplyDeleteHow did you find that Geophile? It is excellent.
ReplyDeleteDoing a routine google of "stone mounds", I think. You've probably experienced how stuff comes and goes on the same google searches over time. This just showed up.
ReplyDeleteHard to believe about the dogs, but I'll suspend my disbelief for now.