Dogs, Past and Present: An Interdisciplinary Perspective

Cover\nDedication\nTitle Page\nCopyright page\nContents Page\nAcknowledgements\nList of Authors\nPresentation\nForewords\nIntroduction\nOpening. Calling on a Favour from Human’s Best Friend: Public Outreach in Science\nSection 1 Dog Genetics, Microtomography and Morphometric Techniques\n	1.1 A Molecular View on the Domestication of Dogs\n	1.2 Mitochondrial DNA Variation Among Dogs of Mongolian, Tuvinian and Altaic Nomads\n	1.3 Ancient and Recent Changes in Breeding Practices for Dogs\n	1.4 Using X-ray Microtomography to Discriminate Between Dogs’ and Wolves’ Lower Carnassial Tooth\n	1.5 The Skull Shape of Canis lupus. A Study of Wolf and Dog Cranial Morphology\nSection 2 Wolf Versus Dog\n	2.1 Size Variation of the Middle-Late Pleistocene Grey Wolf (Canis lupus) from the Italian Peninsula\n	2.2 The Advantages of Owning a Palaeolithic Dog\n	2.3 Why Wolves Became Dogs: Interdisciplinary Questions on Domestication\n	2.4 Vector-Borne Diseases as Possible Constraints on the Spread of Dogs into the Tropics and Beyond\nSection 3 Dogs through Time: Role, Task and Position\n	3.1 Urban Nomads and Their Dogs\n	3.2 ‘The Mayor is a Dog’: The Coming of Age of Contemporary American Pet Culture\n	3.3 Wolves, Dogs and Water – Dogs and Fishing Boats\n	3.4 Dogs, Nomads and Hunters in Southern Siberia\n	3.5 The Dog – Human Interrelations in the Lower Amur Rural Regions (the Far East of Russia): Past and Present\n	3.6 The Mother of Dogs: Women, Power and Dogs in First Nations Societies in Northwest North America\n	3.7 Dogs Through Time: an Ethno-Evolutionary Perspective\n	3.8 Dogs and the Afterlife in Southern Italy between Ethnology and Archaeology\n	3.9 Faithful unto Death. Burial, Legends and Heroism of the Dog from Antiquity to the Contemporary Age\nSection 4 Dogs: Archaeological and Archaeozoological Cases\n	4.1 Ur-gir and the Other Dogs from Abu Tberah (Southern Iraq): Considerations on the Role of Dogs in Sumer during the 3rd Millennium BCE\n	4.2 Ritual use of dogs in the Neolithic cultures of China\n	4.3 Neolithic Dogs in the Central Po Valley - A Review of Published Data and New Evidence\n	4.4 Evolution and Utilisation of Dogs in Austria: the Archaeozoological Record from the Neolithic to the Roman Period\n	4.5 A Dog’s Head in a House Pit at the Early Iron Age Site of Verucchio. Butchery Waste or Ritual Sacrifice?\n	4.6 The Dogs from the Cult Layers of the Ipogeo del Guardiano (Trinitapoli, Barletta-Andria-Trani, Italy)\n	4.7 Four Dogs in the Road and Other Canine Oddities from Gabii (Rome, Italy)\n	4.8 The Discovery of a Dog in the Excavations of the Rome Underground Line C in Largo Amba Aradam\n	4.9 Dog and Human Sepultures at Peltuinum (L’Aquila, Italy)\n	4.10 The Dog as a Companion in Life and Death: The Case Study of Dog Burials in a Human Grave (VII - VI BC) Loc. Collina dei Gelsi - Poggio Sommavilla (RI)\n	4.11 The Role of Dogs in the Xiongnu Society\n	4.12 Dog Burial at the Ust-Voikarskoe-1 Settlement and Its Interpretation Issues\n	4.13 The Dog in the Castle: a Dog Skeleton from the Castle of Santa Severa (Latium, Italy)\nSection 5 Representation of Dogs in Different Cultures\n	5.1 Lupus in Fabula: The Representation of the Wolf (Canis lupus) in European Palaeolithic Art\n	5.2 At the Beginning of a Beautiful Friendship. Canid Representations in Levantine Rock Art\n	5.3 Dog Images in the Altai Rock Art\n	5.4 Representations of Dogs in Attic Funerary Monuments: A Question of Symbolism?\n	5.5 ‘Do not laugh, I beg of you, for this is a dog’s grave’: The Human-Canine Bond in the Ancient Greek World\n	5.6 The Image of the Dog on Ancient Coins in the Mediterranean Area\n	5.7 The Numismatist’s Best Friend. Images of Dogs on Roman Coins\n	5.8 Dogs in Early Imperial China: Anthropo-Zoological Reading of Iconographic Sources from the Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220)\n	5.9 ‘Cobalt Greyhounds’. An Artistic Proof in Ceramics\nSection 6 Dogs: Myth and Symbolism\n	6.1 ‘Implore me not, Dog’. The Dog in the Classical World: An Apotropaic View\n	6.2 Dogs in Phoenician Culture\n	6.3 Dog in War, Hunting, Livestock Work and Everyday Life of Greco-Roman Society\n	6.4 Dog in Philippine Life, Ritual and Creation Myths: in a Spirit of Hunting\n	6.5 Demonic Dogs of Mongolian Stag Stones and their Chinese Counterparts\n	6.6 A Few Days with Mongolian Dogs and Their Herders\n	6.7 Dog and Wolf in the Non-Tale Prose of the Turkic Peoples of Siberia\nBack Cover