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1 online resource |
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Preface; Introduction; 1. History, Ethnography, and Archaeology of the Coast Salish Woolly-Dog; 2. A Dwarf Hound Skeleton from a Romano-British Grave at York Road, Leicester, England, U.K., with a discussion of other Roman small dog types and speculation regarding their respective aetiologies; 3. Food, Rituals? The Exploitation of Dogs from Eretria (Greece) During the Helladic and Hellenistic Periods; 4. Artemis Pit? Dog Remains from a Well in the Ancient Town of Siracusa (Sicily) |
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5. In Sickness and in Health: Care for an Arthritic Maltese Dog from the Roman Cemetery of Yasmina, Carthage, Tunisia6. What did the Bronze Age Dogs Eat? Coprolithic Analyses; 7. What Do Dogs Mean? What Do Dogs Do? Symbolism, Instrumentality, and Ritual in Afro-Cuban Religion; 8. Dog Sacrifice in the Ancient World: A Ritual Passage?; 9. Bronze Age Dogs from Graves in Borger (Netherlands) and Dimini (Greece); 10. An Ethnoarcheological Study of Chase Hunting with Gundogs by the Aboriginal Peoples of Taiwan; 11. Variability in Medieval Dogs from Hungary |
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12. Companions from the Oldest Times: Dogs in Ancient Greek Literature, Iconography and Osteological Testimony13. Dog-wolf Hybrid Biotype Reconstruction from the Archaeological City of Teotihuacan in Prehispanic Central Mexico; 14. The Sacrifice of Dogs in Ancient Italy; 15. The Evidentiary Dog: A Review of Anthrozoological Cases and Archaeological Studies |
| Summary |
This, the final title to be published from the sessions of the 2002 ICAZ conference, focuses on the role of man's best friend. As worker or companion, the dog has enjoyed a unique relationship with its human master, and the depth and variety of the papers in this fascinating collection is a testament to the interest that this symbiotic arrangement holds for many scholars working in archaeology today. The book covers an eclectic range of subjects, such as considering dogs as animals of sacrifice and animal components of ancient and modern religious ritual and practice; dogs as human companions subject to loving care, visual/symbolic representation, deliberate or accidental breed manipulation; as working dogs; and finally as co-inhabitors of uman dwelling paces and co-consumers of human food resources. While many of the papers in this volume have a predominant focus, they also demonstate that the relationships between humans and dogs are rarely, if ever singular or simple. Instead these relationships are complex, often combining the practical, the ideological and the symbolic |
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Dogs -- Behavior -- Evolution -- Congresses
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- Animal Husbandry.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781785704260 |
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1785704265 |
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