A History of Dogs in the Early Americas
- Marion Schwartz
Yale University Press, $27.50 £ 21,
Hunting dogs take to the water with their Micmac owners in nineteenth-century Canada. In AHistory of Dogs in the Early Americas (Yale University Press, $27.50, £21), Marion Schwartz tells how these versatile companions have coexisted with humans for 12,000 years, whether reared for food, used in hunting, sent to war or revered as guides to the afterlife.
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Old companions who learn new tricks. Nature 389, 249 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1038/38435
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