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The Ljungavik Dog: A Mesolithic dog burial

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Submitted ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fossilesque@mander.xyz⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Science is not supposed to make me cry, dammit!

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  • pH3ra@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Image

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  • LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Id love to see a recreation of the dog. Its hard to get a sense of scale but the head looks quite big. Also:

    Along with the dog, a small number of microchips were found which can be interpreted as grave gifts.

    Microchips? Is that like chips of flint napping or were the ancient alien dudes on to something?

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    • lime@feddit.nu ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      the original text has it as “mikrospån”, which should be translated as microblade, a 3-5cm flint blade used to make microliths.

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      • LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Ah thanks, i kind of forgot Firefox translated it for me. That makes much mores sense.

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    • xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Bro how else would anthropoligists know the dog had an owner. Duh

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  • prex@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Aboriginal oral histories date back at least another 2000 years before this.

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    • OprahsedCreature@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well now I’m curious as to how they date oral histories

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      • MartianSands@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Stories about events we can identify in the archeological record, probably. Forest fires, major battles, geological events, things like that which can be used to line the stories up with specific real-world events

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      • blazeknave@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        First half really had me expecting you asking about blow jobs

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    • prex@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Edit: still very cool & I’m sure they loved that dog like I do mine.

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  • RedCarCastle@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m getting real jurassic bark vibs here

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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    before all known human history

    Wrong. Earlier than written history (because writing was not invented then), but civilization is older.

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    • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      History as an academic term usually goes hand in hand with writing, not civilisation. When I write, I refer to earlier periods as “prehistoric.”

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  • Sam_Bass@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Same as a child for many even into this day

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    • NikkiDimes@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      My dogs are my family 100%. I’ll mourn them when they’re gone like I’d mourn any other family member.

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      • Sam_Bass@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yeah I do believe we all have one bad seed to deal with

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  • witty_username@feddit.nl ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    A family?

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