Hello -I do not know if my 1 email got through so I'll try one more time
and
I would like to ask the board a Q. Regarding dog burials (from 12.000
-3.900 B.C).
The Q is this. What is your opinion about the differentiation in the way
that dogs was handled in the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic period. I mean,
some of the dog bones was found in kitchenmiddens, - and often was the
bonemarrow removed -eaten. Other dogs were found, in burials with humans.
And some dogs were given a fine solo burial with rich offering goods -very
like the rich human graves from the same period. (Scandinavian finds). My
own guess is that there was a kind of selection - but was it a selection
done by humans -the dogs that was the best hunters -best guards ore? That
where given the finest burials?
- Ore was it like "today" = some dogs was "street dogs almost on there own"
and others precious pets and hunting mates and so on? Out of special
selected lines.
- Do any body have an opinion about this Q.?
Best from
Annette Roed
Stud. Mag.
Prehistoric Archaeology
Horsens Denmark.
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