Arkeologihund : En studie i experimentell arkeologi om möjligheten att använda hund som arkeologisk prospekteringsmetod för att lokalisera humanosteologiskt material. / Archaeology dog : an experimental archaeology study on the possibility of using a dog as an archaeological prospection method to locate human bones.

Description

In today’s archaeology there’s a growing need for non-invasive prospection methods. However there’s a methodological gap and what’s missing is a method for locating human bones. In this study a specially trained German shepherd is put through scientific tests determining how good the dog is at telling the different between the scent of human and animal bones. The dog is also tested in an outdoor environment to simulate an actual archaeological site. The tests in this study show that the dog can distinguish between the smell of human and animal bones with an accuracy of 94,2 % and that he can detect human bones in the field. Further tests need to be conducted to calibrate the method.

Links & Downloads

1. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-44093

Tags

scent detection

olfactory sense

dog

archaeology

experiment

archaeological method

human remains

archaeology dog

arkeologi

hund

luktsinne

specialsök

arkeologihund

humanosteologiskt material

prospektering

fältarkeologi

experimentell arkeologi

metodutveckling

Additional Fields

Identifer	oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:lnu-44093
Date	January 2015
Creators	Vallulv, Sophie
Publisher	Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper (KV)
Source Sets	DiVA Archive at Upsalla University
Language	Swedish
Detected Language	English
Type	Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text
Format	application/pdf
Rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess