Table of Contents

• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• 1. Introduction Brandi Bethke and Amanda Burtt
• 2. Prehistoric Dogs as Hunting Weapons: The Advent of Animal Biotechnology Angela R. Perri
• 3. Dog Life and Death in an Ancestral Pueblo Landscape Victoria Monagle and Emily Lena Jones
• 4. The Archaeology of Dogs at the Precontact Site of Nunalleq, Western Alaska Edouard Masson-Maclean, Ellen McManus-Fry, and Kate Britton
• 5. Using Dental Microwear to Understand the Dietary Behavior of Domestic Dogs in Precontact North America Amanda Burtt and Larisa R.G. DeSantis
• 6. Scavenger and Sentry: The Roles of Dogs at Çatalhöyük, Turkey in the Context of the Near Eastern Neolithic Nerissa Russell
• 7. The Dog Days are Over: The Introduction of the Horse and Its Impact on Human-Dog Relationships among the Blackfoot Brandi Bethke8. Exotic Dogs and Indigenous Humans in Tropical Northeastern South America Peter W. Stahl
• 9. Between Ethnography and Prehistory: The Case of the Australian Dingo Loukas Koungoulos and Melanie Fillios
• 10. Powerful Pups: A Case Study for Dog Sacrifice in Archaic Rome from the Area Sacra di Sant'Omobono Victoria Moses
• 11. Conclusion: Conceptualizing and Investigating our Relationships with Dogs Robert Losey
• Index

About the Author

Brandi Bethke is laboratory director and research faculty at the Oklahoma Archeological Survey at the University of Oklahoma.

Amanda Burtt is associate curator for the Angel Mounds rehousing project with the Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology at Indiana University, Bloomington.