Dogs were commonly buried individually upon death but sometimes jointly interred with
people. The oldest known example of the latter, from Bonn-Oberkassel in Germany, serves …

Cats are hypercarnivorous, opportunistic animals that have adjusted to anthropogenic
environments since the Neolithic period. Through humans, either by direct feeding and/or …

In the Rhône Valley's Middle Neolithic gathering site of Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux (France),
the positioning of two females within a structure aligned with the solstices is atypical. Their …

Dogs are among the most variable species today, but little is known about the morphological
variability in the early phases of their history. The Neolithic transition to farming may have …

We describe the shape variability of nine dog hemimandibles recovered from two Holocene
archaeological sites on the Iberian Peninsula. In this study we mainly focus on the …

We studied 36 dogs (Canis familiaris) from the Can Roqueta site in the Catalan pre-littoral
depression (Barcelona), dated between the Late Bronze Age and the First Iron Age (1300 …

Multiple studies have demonstrated that European colonization of the Americas led to the
death of nearly all North American dog mitochondrial lineages and replacement with …

This book draws upon domestication science to undertake a radical reappraisal of the
jurisprudence of property and intellectual property. Bringing together animal studies and …

Small dogs as pets, objects of affection and special consideration by their owners, are
known in the Western Mediterranean since classical Antiquity through texts, epigraphy and …

Evidence of dog consumption at the El Portalón de Cueva Mayor site (Sierra de Atapuerca,
Spain) from the Holocene is revealed for the first time. The taxonomical and taphonomical …