{"id":6073,"date":"2018-05-16T12:50:55","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T16:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=6073"},"modified":"2018-05-23T13:10:13","modified_gmt":"2018-05-23T17:10:13","slug":"from-an-asss-mouth-earliest-evidence-of-use-of-donkey-bit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/from-an-asss-mouth-earliest-evidence-of-use-of-donkey-bit\/","title":{"rendered":"From an ass\u2019s mouth: Earliest evidence of use of donkey bit<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Teeth from a 4,700-year-old domestic donkey skeleton from Israel reveal unevenly worn enamel that is indicative of bit wear. The findings suggest that bits may have been used to control donkeys in the ancient Near East as early as the third millennium, long before the arrival of the horse. This early evidence emphasizes donkeys\u2019 significance as domesticated animals even at that early date\u2014a development that continues to influence the political, social, and economic life of many Third World countries today where donkeys remain an important means of transportation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0196335\" target=\"_blank\">Original paper<\/a> published May 16, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>Canadian co-authors: <\/strong>Haskel Greenfield, University of Manitoba &#8211;\u00a0<a>haskel.greenfield@umanitoba.<wbr \/>ca<\/a>;\u00a0Tina Greenfield, University of Saskatchewan &#8211; <a href=\"mailto:tgreenfield@stmcollege.ca\" target=\"_blank\">tgreenfield@stmcollege.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teeth from a 4,700-year-old domestic donkey skeleton from Israel reveal unevenly worn enamel that is indicative of bit wear. The findings suggest that bits may have been used to control donkeys in the ancient Near East as early as the third millennium, long before the arrival of the horse. This early evidence emphasizes donkeys\u2019 significance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1zX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6073"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6091,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6073\/revisions\/6091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}