Darcy F. Morey
Autor de Dogs: Domestication and the Development of a Social Bond
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Darcy E Morey received his Ph.D. in anthropology, with a specialization in archaeology, in 1990 from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. Subsequently, he spent a year as a guest researcher at the University of Copenhagen Zoological Museum in Denmark. He was there for the express purpose of mostrar más studying dog remains from archaeological sites in arctic Greenland. In addition to participating in archaeological fieldwork there in 1990, he has worked in Norway, France, and Denmark, as well as numerous places in the United States. He has published actively on a variety of topics, with his work on dogs being especially prominent. On that general topic, he has published as sole or senior author many articles and book reviews in journals such as Arctic, Journal of Archaeological Science, Quarterly Review of Biology, Archaeozoologia, Current Anthropology, and Journal of Alabama Archaeology. Dr. Morey has also published on the topic of dogs in popular science outlets, including the American Scientist and La Recherche. He joined the faculty at the University of Kansas in Lawrence in 1998. There, in addition to his ongoing research activities, he was selected by students as the most notable teacher of undergraduates in his department (Anthropology) in 2000. In addition, in 2002 he was elected to the Alpha Pi chapter of Phi Beta Delta, The Honor Society for International Scholars. He resigned from the University of Kansas in 2006 and began working at the University of Tennessee in Martin. He is presently a Research Associate with the Forensic Science Institute at Radford University in Radford, Virginia. mostrar menos
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Morey presents some very pertinent, very, very precise data. Unfortunately, much of it concerns paragraphs in which he argues about how many centimeters a skull or a muzzle is compared with another. In other words, the technical data are a bit much for a casual reader.
His specialty within the field is dog burials. That is, dogs which were deliberately buried either with humans or by themselves. Morey notes that this is evidence of the strong social bonds between humans and dogs. The oldest burial he discusses is 15,000 years ago. Again, his discussions of these burials, which are diffused throughout the book are entirely too dry and technical to be interesting for the usual reader. This book is definitely a scholarly one, of interest to scholars. That's too bad, because scholars can write scholarly books which are interesting to read. I think of David Anthony in The Horse, The Wheel, and Language or David Lewis-Williams works on neolithic minds.… (más)