Dogs and People in Social, Working, Economic or Symbolic Interaction.

Intro -- 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) -- 5. In Sickness and in Health: Care for an Arthritic Maltese Dog from the Roman Cemetery of Yasmina, Carthage, Tunisia -- 6. 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 -- 12. Companions from the Oldest Times: Dogs in Ancient Greek Literature, Iconography and Osteological Testimony -- 13. 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.

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