Simon Mueller
Mr. Ippolito
10/11/21
Kreier, Freda. “Dog DNA Reveals Ancient Trade Network Connecting the Arctic to the Outside World.” Science News, 7 Oct. 2021, https://www.sciencenews.org/article/dog-dna-ancient-trade-network-arctic-siberia-europe-near-east.
For my current event, I read the article Dog DNA reveals ancient trade network connecting the Arctic to the outside world. The article talks about how ancient arctic communities used Siberian dogs as trade. Dogs were used as trade because of how important they were and effective in the arctic. Siberian Dogs were used for things such as sledding, hunting, herding reindeer, clothing, and food. This article and study show that Siberian dogs were traded and mixed into other dog populations and when that happened populations thrived and Siberian dogs were very effective in helping populations. Siberian dogs were traded for materials and Siberia brought in other dogs from the outside world to help their population thrive.
In ancient times, Siberian Dogs were very useful for society, they helped populations thrive, they brought so much to the table and they were so effective in so many categories. In the article, the quote that proves this goes as follows “Dogs have been valuable commodities in the Arctic for the last 9,500 years and have been used for sledding, hunting, herding reindeer, clothing and food.”
It goes to show that Dogs helped in so many ways. Siberian dogs were also used in trade because of how valuable they were. “The result suggests that Siberians did bring in dogs from the outside world, Feuerborn says. This trade network could have helped transmit new ideas and technologies, such as metalworking, to the Arctic, and may have facilitated Siberian society’s transition from foraging to reindeer herding in the last 2,000 years.” Dogs were used for so many things and they benefitted populations heavily.
One thing that I had wished that the article did was contain more physical proof/photos of Siberian Dog DNA and fossils of the Dogs. Another thing that I wished the article contained was to explain a bit more about the trading system like how it worked and what countries/populations participated in these trades. However, I liked the article as it was well written, the point was clear, there was proof of the Siberian Dog even though there wasn’t a lot. I liked how they explained how the dogs were important and how they severely helped a civilization. I think that this was a well-written article and it makes me fascinated by this topic. It makes me want to look into this topic more and see what countries participatedin this trade system. This article in general fascinates me and I want to look into it more in the future.
Simon Mueller
Padraig DeMarr
ReplyDeleteOriginal article: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/dog-dna-ancient-trade-network-arctic-siberia-europe-near-east
Simon mueller review: https://bhscorechem.blogspot.com/2021/10/dog-dna-reveals-ancient-trade-network.html
I think that overall your review was strong and I think this can be shown through most of your review. One reason is that you gave an interesting reason as to why the dog was so useful in the arctic. “Dogs have been valuable commodities in the Arctic for the last 9,500 years and have been used for sledding, hunting, herding reindeer, clothing and food.” Secondly I liked how you pointed out that the article failed to bring up hard evidence such as DNA. Lastly, I think that you talked about how they were used for trade and they also brought in dogs from other places to help the dog population grow in the arctic.
Like I said before your review was pretty well written overall but there were some areas of improvement. One was you didn't really mention where they got their evidence or what evidence they had but maybe they did not state any of this information. Secondly I think you could elaborate a little bit more on the evidence you did include.
Lastly the thing i thought was most interesting was that they were traded like a product and you said they were used for food which was a bit shocking to me.
Kai Bodell 10/22/21
ReplyDeleteIppolito 9H Current Event 5
Original Article:
Kreier, Freda. “Dog DNA Reveals Ancient Trade Network Connecting the Arctic to the Outside World.” Science News, 15 Oct. 2021, https://www.sciencenews.org/article/dog-dna-ancient-trade-network-arctic-siberia-europe-near-east
Simon’s Review of the Article:
Mueller, Simon. “Dog DNA Reveals Ancient Trade Network Connecting the Arctic to the Outside World.” Dog DNA Reveals Ancient Trade Network Connecting the Arctic to the Outside World, 1 Jan. 1970, https://bhscorechem.blogspot.com/2021/10/dog-dna-reveals-ancient-trade-network.html#comment-form
In this review, Simon covered the topic of the article, “Dog DNA Reveals Ancient Trade Network Connecting the Arctic to the Outside World,” written by Freda Kreier. This article explained why Siberian Dogs were so important to the trade in the Arctic. They were able to be used for sledding, herding reindeer, hunting, clothing, or even food. Because they were so resourceful, there was high demand for them, causing the trade of Siberian Dogs to be very important in different Arctic communities. The first aspect Simon did well was providing background context for the readers. “In ancient times, Siberian Dogs were very useful for society, they helped populations thrive, they brought so much to the table, and they were so effective in many categories” (Mueller). Secondly, Simon used useful information with statistics of quotes which informed the reader further on the topic. For example, “Dogs have been valuable commodities in the arctic for the last 9,500 years and have been used for sledding, hinting, herding reindeer, clothing, and food” (Kreier). Lastly, Simon guided the readers to see how this trading system can be useful today. “...This trade network could have helped transmit new ideas and technologies, such as metalworking, to the Arctic, and may have facilitated Siberian society’s transition from foraging to reindeer herding in the past 2,000 years” (Kreier). Overall I think Simon did a good job in this review, yet there is always room for improvement.
Like I said earlier, this trade network could have been improved and modernized today to help transfer new technologies and information from one place to the next. Though this article was well done, there are still some aspects that can be improved. One of which is the lack of explanation for his quotes. After he listed a quote he moved in quickly without explaining it. For example, “In the article, the quote that proves this goes as follows “Dogs have been valuable commodities in the arctic for the last 9,500 years and have been used for sledding, hinting, herding reindeer, clothing, and food.” It goes to show that Dogs helped in so many ways” (Mueller). Another aspect he could improve on is not being so repetitive, throughout the whole review he repeated that these dogs were very useful, yet he never gave too specific information in it. For example, “Dogs were used for so many things and they benefited populations heavily” (Mueller). To correct these weaknesses he could explain more of his quotes and try to be less repetitive in his writing.
Mueller’s strength is getting the general information to the reader in a “straight to the point manner”. But his weakness falls in his writing, because of the repetition and lack of explanation of the quotes he provided. I think something that shocked me when reading this is the fact that these dogs were also used for food. I think this is completely absurd and I hope this doesn’t happen today. This article and review have changed my perspective by allowing me to think just how important these Siberian Dogs were to Arctic societies.
Kiran Madhavan 10/17/21
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Citations:
Kreier, Freda. “Dog DNA Reveals Ancient Trade Network Connecting the Arctic to the Outside World.” Science News, 7 Oct. 2021, https://www.sciencenews.org/article/dog-dna-ancient-trade-network-arctic-siberia-europe-near-east.
https://bhscorechem.blogspot.com/2021/10/dog-dna-reveals-ancient-trade-network.html
I commented on Simon Mueller's review of the article “Dog DNA Reveals Ancient Trade Network Connecting the Arctic to the Outside World” by Freda Kreier. The first aspect I liked that Simon discussed was the importance of researching these ancient Siberian dogs. Simon says, “Siberian dogs were used for things such as sledding, hunting, herding deer, clothing, and food” (Mueller). I liked how straight off the bat Simon listed the areas Siberian dogs helped ancient humans in, as this quickly informed the reader of the importance of this study. The second aspect I liked was how Simon then went into detail about how the trading of Siberian dogs led to groups mixing, therefore allowing certain populations to thrive. I thought that this was interesting, and Simon later brought this back up when discussing how this showed that dogs were brought in from the outside world. The third aspect I enjoyed when reading this review was how Simon then discussed the trade systems and how they benefited society, Simon uses a quote from the actual article that states, “This trade network could have helped transmit new ideas and technologies such as metalworking, to the Arctic, and may have facilitated Siberian societies transition from foraging to reindeer riding in the last 2,00 years” (Kreier). I thought this quote was useful in explaining the benefits of trading Siberian dogs to early humans.
While this review was very well written, I think Simon could have made a few tweaks to make things slightly more clear. When using the direct quote from the article, the name Freuerborn was mentioned, however Simon never stated who this was. Upon looking at the actual article, I found out that Feuerborn is an archaeologist at the University of Copenhagen, and I think this would be useful to mention. I also wish that in the second paragraph, Simon could have connected this study into today’s society slightly better. He once again talks about the trading benefits to people in the Arctic, and I think he could have instead explained how looking at these dog remains could help us learn more about early human activities/lives, and could also clear up dates about when they lived. The article explains how dogs rarely wandered off from their humans, and that in past studies, dog DNA has been used to push back the arrival date of humans in the Americas.