Flintstone (dog)
Flintstone (* 2011) is Germany's first and so far only certified archeology dog . The old German herding dog supports excavations in the preservation of monuments . The animal has been conditioned to both prehistoric and historical human bone tissue and indicates its possible presence in the soil. The dog then lies down, but does not dig.
career
In Flintstone is originally a rescue dog who for surface, avalanches - and rubble search was trained. When his owner, the archaeologist Dietmar Kroepel from Otterfing (Upper Bavaria), took him to an excavation in Italy in 2015 , the idea of training him to be an archeology dog came up. In 2012, a black Labrador hybrid was trained as the world's first archeology dog in Australia .
Flintstone is dated from 2800 BC. BC to AD 600 and can track down human bones to a depth of two and a half meters.
In 2016, Flintstone discovered a Roman grave in the Upper Bavarian district of Ebersberg and made further discoveries in Fürstenfeldbruck and Rosenheim . However, he continued to work as a police sniffer dog ( cold-case canide ) and helped investigate a total of 13 cold-case cases in Austria, Germany and Poland in 2017 and 2018 .
Archeology dogs in Germany
Archeology dogs should continue to be trained in Germany. For this purpose, Dietmar Kroepel founded the Archaeo-Dogs Bayern association and the Federal Association of Archeology Dogs in Germany , and further associations are planned in North Rhine-Westphalia and Baden-Württemberg . At the end of 2018, eight more dogs were in training, two of them in Saarland , a core area of the Latène period in Germany.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Wera Engelhardt: Flintstone sniffs out human bones. Mittelbayerische Zeitung , November 26, 2018, accessed on November 27, 2018 .
- ↑ Lena Schwarz: Archeology dog Flintstone finds human bones. In: The dog . November 3, 2017. Retrieved November 27, 2018 .
- ↑ a b c Archeology Dog: A nose for ancient bones. Deutschlandfunk Nova , September 26, 2018, accessed on November 27, 2018 .