Both times, they used all four of Pintar and Nikolic’s cadaver dogs: Panda, Mali, a third Belgian Malinois and a German shepherd. We may be out on the trails when you send your message but we will respond to all inquiries within 24 hours. Since Pintar and Glavas’ Croatia study was published last year, several European and Croatian archaeologists have asked them for help in identifying sites, too.

Experts accidentally broke three of the eggs but managed to preserve one - thought to be the only complete Roman chicken's egg found in Britain.

Karen Laine has been featured in several reality television shows, including Good Bones, Brother vs. Glavas had to learn the scientific literature, such as scent theory, far outside the standard confines of archaeology; the same was true for Pintar and the field of archaeology. They then asked Suzi Goodhope, a longtime cadaver-dog handler in Florida, to bring her experienced detection dog, Shiraz, a Belgian Malinois, to the site in 2013. Rescued shelter cat Sir Indiana Bones is a valued employee of the Museum of Osteology in Oklahoma City. The new normal is certainly an odd time for us all but even more so for dogs who have become used to having us all around again.

In the United States, human remains detection dogs have aided discoveries at a variety of Native American sites, some badly damaged by looters and earlier generations of archaeologists with less ethical approaches to excavation, as well as by development and agriculture. She already knew a great deal about the necropolis at Drvisica, having fully excavated and analysed the contents of three tombs there. Mike Russo and Jeff Shanks, archaeologists with the National Park Service’s Southeast Archeological Center, had created at least 14 test holes near a promising site in northwest Florida that had been flattened during an earlier era of less diligent archaeology.The dogs’ archaeological expedition had been initiated by Vedrana Glavas, an archaeologist at Croatia’s University of Zadar.