Dogs: Domestication and the Development of a Social Bond

About Darcy F. Morey

Darcy Morey received his Ph.D. in anthropological archaeology in 1990 from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. Subsequently he spent a year as a guest researcher at the University of Copenhagen Zoological Museum in Denmark. He was there for the express purpose of studying dog remains from archaeological sites in arctic Greenland. In addition to participating in archaeological fieldwork there in 1990 he has worked in Norway France and Denmark as well as numerous places in the United States. He has published actively on a variety of topics with his work on dogs being especially prominent. On that general topic he has published as sole or senior author many articles and book reviews in journals such as Arctic Journal of Archaeological Science Quarterly Review of Biology Archaeozoologia Current Anthropology and Journal of Alabama Archaeology. Dr Morey has also published on the topic of dogs in popular science outlets for example the American Scientist and La Recherche. He joined the faculty at the University of Kansas in Lawrence in 1998. There in addition to his ongoing research activities he was selected by students as the most notable teacher of undergraduates in his department (Anthropology) in 2000. In addition in 2002 he was elected to the Alpha Pi chapter of Phi Beta Delta The Honor Society for International Scholars. He resigned from the University of Kansas in 2006 and began working at the University of Tennessee Martin.