A Dog in the Grave: What the Kinchega Dingo Burial Tells Us About Multispecies Relationships in Deep Indigenous History
A dingo buried on the Baaka (Darling River) around 950 years ago was fed, cared for through serious injury, and honored with a midden that people kept adding shells and bones to for another five centuries after his death. Excavated at the request of Barkindji Elders, the find pushes dog burial archaeology toward a harder question: what it means to sustain, not just mark, a relationship with a nonhuman ancestor across generations.