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http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20091130/NEWS/311309991
By Paul Gottlieb
Peninsula Daily News
Dogs to look for archaeological remains on Port Angeles waterfront; demonstration slated today -- 11/30/09 -01:33 PM
PORT ANGELES -- Four furry, four-legged forensics experts will begin sniffing around the Port Angeles waterfront today, seeking signs of ancient Native American remains.
The dogs' weeklong search, through next Monday, will be part of the city's ongoing archaeological survey of 872 acres of waterfront from Ediz Hook to the western edge of the abandoned Rayonier pulp mill property.
The survey, which will lead to an archaeological management plan for the city of Port Angeles and its property owners, is being conducted under a $19,200 contract with the Woodside, Calif.-based Institute for Canine Forensics, said Derek Beery, the city's archaeologist, last week.
"The dogs are trained specifically to smell the residue that's left when a human being decomposes," Beery said.
Exhibit skills
The four dogs -- Eros, a male border collie; Rhea, a female border collie; Alice, a black Labrador; and Riley, a female border collie-Doberman -- will exhibit their skills for the general public at 4:30 p.m. today at Port Angeles City Hall, 321 E. Fifth St., during a presentation that will include a question-and-answer session.
The presentation will include the dogs performing a sample search for teeth purchased online at www.boneroom.com, home Web sit of "The Bone Room," which bills itself as "a natural history store," said Canine Forensics project manager Lynne Angeloro of Discovery Bay.
"You can buy a fully articulated skull for 450 bucks," Angeloro said. "Isn't that bizarre?"
The dogs also will search for gray soil -- dirt impregnated with the scent of human remains and found around coffins -- donated by archaeologists and Native American tribes when they have had to relocate burial.
The teeth and gray soil will be placed near city hall under rocks and buried beneath dirt.
The scent samples will be placed 30 minutes before the demonstration "to give the scent a chance to settle," Angeloro said.
"Human remains have a scent that never, ever goes away, especially a bone, even if it dries out," she added.
The dogs can smell remains that are 9 feet deep and 1,500 to 2,000 years old as long as they aren't buried under concrete, Angeloro said, adding that for every scent receptor a human has, a dog has 10,000.
By Paul Gottlieb
Peninsula Daily News
Dogs to look for archaeological remains on Port Angeles waterfront; demonstration slated today -- 11/30/09 -01:33 PM
PORT ANGELES -- Four furry, four-legged forensics experts will begin sniffing around the Port Angeles waterfront today, seeking signs of ancient Native American remains.
The dogs' weeklong search, through next Monday, will be part of the city's ongoing archaeological survey of 872 acres of waterfront from Ediz Hook to the western edge of the abandoned Rayonier pulp mill property.
The survey, which will lead to an archaeological management plan for the city of Port Angeles and its property owners, is being conducted under a $19,200 contract with the Woodside, Calif.-based Institute for Canine Forensics, said Derek Beery, the city's archaeologist, last week.
"The dogs are trained specifically to smell the residue that's left when a human being decomposes," Beery said.
Exhibit skills
The four dogs -- Eros, a male border collie; Rhea, a female border collie; Alice, a black Labrador; and Riley, a female border collie-Doberman -- will exhibit their skills for the general public at 4:30 p.m. today at Port Angeles City Hall, 321 E. Fifth St., during a presentation that will include a question-and-answer session.
The presentation will include the dogs performing a sample search for teeth purchased online at www.boneroom.com, home Web sit of "The Bone Room," which bills itself as "a natural history store," said Canine Forensics project manager Lynne Angeloro of Discovery Bay.
"You can buy a fully articulated skull for 450 bucks," Angeloro said. "Isn't that bizarre?"
The dogs also will search for gray soil -- dirt impregnated with the scent of human remains and found around coffins -- donated by archaeologists and Native American tribes when they have had to relocate burial.
The teeth and gray soil will be placed near city hall under rocks and buried beneath dirt.
The scent samples will be placed 30 minutes before the demonstration "to give the scent a chance to settle," Angeloro said.
"Human remains have a scent that never, ever goes away, especially a bone, even if it dries out," she added.
The dogs can smell remains that are 9 feet deep and 1,500 to 2,000 years old as long as they aren't buried under concrete, Angeloro said, adding that for every scent receptor a human has, a dog has 10,000.
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I bet Charlie would enjoy that work also.
