Dogs : archaeology beyond domestication / edited by Brandi Bethke and Amanda Burtt.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Brandi Bethke and Amanda Burtt -- Prehistoric Dogs as Hunting Weapons : The Advent of Animal Biotechnology / Angela R. Perri -- Dog Life and Death in an Ancestral Pueblo Landscape / Victoria Monagle and Emily Lena Jones -- The Archaeology of Dogs at the Precontact Site of Nunalleq, Western Alaska / Edouard Masson-Maclean, Ellen McManus-Fry, and Kate Britton -- Using Dental Microwear to Understand the Dietary Behavior of Domestic Dogs in Precontact North America / Amanda Burtt and Larisa R.G. DeSantis -- Scavenger and Sentry : The Roles of Dogs at Çatalhöyük, Turkey in the Context of the Near Eastern Neolithic / Nerissa Russell -- The Dog Days are Over : The Introduction of the Horse and Its Impact on Human-Dog Relationships among the Blackfoot / Brandi Bethke -- Exotic Dogs and Indigenous Humans in Tropical Northeastern South America / Peter W. Stahl -- Between Ethnography and Prehistory : The Case of the Australian Dingo / Loukas Koungoulos and Melanie Fillios -- Powerful Pups : A Case Study for Dog Sacrifice in Archaic Rome from the Area Sacra di Sant'Omobono / Victoria Moses -- Conclusion : Conceptualizing and Investigating our Relationships with Dogs / Robert Losey.

While previous studies of dogs in human history have focused on how people have changed the species through domestication, this volume offers an archaeological portrait of the human-canine bond. Contributors investigate the ways people have viewed and valued dogs in different cultures around the world and across the ages.--description provided by publisher.

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