Dogs : domestication and the development of a social bond /
Dogs provides a comprehensive account of the origins and development of the domestic dog over the past 15,000 years.
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
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| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=490519 |
Table of Contents:
- Preamble to the dog's journey through time
- Immediate ancestry
- Evidence of dog domestication and its timing : morphological and contextual indications
- Domestication of dogs and other organisms
- The roles of dogs in past human societies
- Dogs of the Arctic, the Far North
- The burial of dogs, and what dog burials mean
- Why the social bond between dogs and people?
- Other human-like capabilities of dogs
- Roles of dogs in recent times
- Epilogue : one dog's journey.