The impact of therapy dogs on the social and emotional wellbeing of students: a systematic review

R Baird, C Grové, E Berger - Educational and Developmental …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Objective This systematic review examined the impacts of therapy dogs on the social and
emotional wellbeing of K-12 students. Procedure Five electronic databases (PsycINFO …

Dog body size in Siberia and the Russian Far East and its implications

RJ Losey, T Nomokonova, PA Kosintsev… - Quaternary Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Body size is correlated with many critical behavioral and developmental patterns in
carnivores, including domestic dogs. The body masses and bite forces of archaeological …

Archaeo-ornithology: towards an archaeology of human-bird interfaces

C Kost, ST Hussain - Environmental Archaeology, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT This editorial introduces Archaeo-Ornithology as a distinct field of inquiry and
discusses its multidisciplinary background and potential contribution to a more nuanced …

Prey size decline as a unifying ecological selecting agent in Pleistocene human evolution

M Ben-Dor, R Barkai - Quaternary, 2021 - mdpi.com
We hypothesize that megafauna extinctions throughout the Pleistocene, that led to a
progressive decline in large prey availability, were a primary selecting agent in key …

Hunting dogs down under? On the Aboriginal use of tame dingoes in dietary game acquisition and its relevance to Australian prehistory

L Koungoulos, M Fillios - Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 2020 - Elsevier
Dingoes are wild canids descended from primitive dogs brought to Australia by humans
around approximately 5000BP. Observations of dingoes living with Aboriginal people …

Hounds follow those who feed them: What can the ethnographic record of hunter-gatherers reveal about early human-canid partnerships?

KD Lupo - Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 2019 - Elsevier
The establishment of early human-canid partnerships involving the use of dogs in hauling
and/or hunting is often nominated as a process that underwrote technological, economic …

Hunting dogs bark differently when they encounter different animal species

R Policht, O Matějka, K Benediktová, J Adámková… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Previous studies have shown that vocalizations of dogs can provide information to human
companions. While acoustic signals of dogs have been intensively studied during the last …

Canine economies of the ancient Near East and Eastern Mediterranean

M Price, J Meier, B Arbuckle - Journal of Field Archaeology, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Archaeological assemblages, texts, and iconography indicate a multifaceted, yet often
ignored, canine economy in the ancient eastern Mediterranean and Near East. This …

Canine companions or competitors? A multi-proxy analysis of dog-human competition

P Pillay, MS Allen, J Littleton - Journal of Archaeological Science, 2022 - Elsevier
Globally, the place of dogs in the anthropogenic niche is varied, with dogs often tightly
integrated into human communities, but sometimes pushed to the margins, and occasionally …

The Neolithic of the Jordanian Badia

B Finlayson, P Flohr - “And in Length of Days Understanding”(Job 12: 12) …, 2023 - Springer
Much research has been conducted in the arid zone of Jordan, beyond the Mediterranean
environments traditionally understood as the Neolithic core developmental area. The …