1k-year-old dingo bones show that it was injured, cared for, and ritually buried

Re:1k-year-old dingo bones show that it was injured, cared f... by treis on Monday May 25, 2026 @08:48AM (#48266213)

>Layer 1 was the only unit containing identifiable cultural materials and was interpreted as a midden because it appeared to have been formed, at least partially, by anthropic additions of mussel shells. All in situ dingo bones were confined to Layer 1. There were no observable cut or fill features that indicated a hole had been excavated to emplace the Garli

>One of the Garli’s caudal vertebrae, recovered directly below the eroding burial, was sampled for AMS radiocarbon dating and returned an age range of 963–916 cal BP (ANU-75935). A freshwater mollusc shell sampled from the central burial block (UNSW-3415) returned an age of 1,178–957 cal BP. Three additional mussel fragments (cf. Velesunio sp.) were dated from Layer 1 of Zone 1 (UNSW-3414), the Garli burial core’s interface with Layer 1 (UNSW-3416), and from sediment within the burial core adjacent to the Garli skeleton itself (SANU-75235). These produced ages several hundred years younger than the Garli

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Re:1k-year-old dingo bones show that it was injured, cared f... by dwroberts on Monday May 25, 2026 @09:32AM (#48266651)

What you’re quoting does not contradict their actual conclusion, which is the first paragraph I quoted

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Re:1k-year-old dingo bones show that it was injured, cared f... by treis on Monday May 25, 2026 @10:23AM (#48267207)

Okay but I didn't say they didn't conclude that. I said:

>no evidence of burial and the evidence (mussel shells) that humans were involved with the site at all is thin

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Re:1k-year-old dingo bones show that it was injured, cared f... by dwroberts on Monday May 25, 2026 @11:51AM (#48268261)

But you’re saying there’s no evidence of a burial and they explicitly state that it was deliberately buried, and there are multiple other factors that indicate human involvement

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Re:1k-year-old dingo bones show that it was injured, cared f... by treis on Monday May 25, 2026 @12:16PM (#48268554)

Again, that there is no evidence of a burial and them explicitly stating that it was deliberately buried are not mutually contradictory things.

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