Comment on “How do you kill 86 mammoths? Taphonomic investigations of mammoth megasites” by Pat Shipman

Perri, Angela R.; Smith, Geoff; Bosch, Delphine

doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2015.03.013

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“…Ibex, gazelle, and equids are all medium-large prey that live individually or in small family groups; ideal for dog-assisted hunting strategies (Perri 2014). On the other hand, aurochs and wild camel are megafauna and oryx form large herds, two factors that can limit or negate the usefulness of hunting dogs (Perri 2014;Perri et al 2015;Perri 2016). Additionally, innate prey selection in dogs may lead to the targeting of vulnerable individuals -the old, the sick and injured, lone males, and females with young.…”

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Pre-Neolithic evidence for dog-assisted hunting strategies in Arabia

Guagnin

Perri

Petraglia

2018

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

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The function of prehistoric dogs in hunting is not readily visible in the archaeological record; interpretations are thus heavily reliant on ethnographic data and remain controversial. Here we document the earliest evidence for dogs on the Arabian Peninsula from rock art at the sites of Shuwaymis and Jubbah, in northwestern Saudi Arabia. Hunting scenes depicted in the rock art illustrate dog-assisted hunting strategies from the 7 th and possibly the 8 th millennium BC, predating the spread of pastoralism. Though the depicted dogs are reminiscent of the modern Canaan dog, it remains unclear if they were brought to the Arabian Peninsula from the Levant or represent an independent domestication of dogs from Arabian wolves. A substantial dataset of 147 hunting scenes shows dogs partaking in a range of hunting strategies based on the environment and topography of each site, perhaps minimizing subsistence risk via hunting intensification in areas with extreme seasonal fluctuations. Particularly notable is the inclusion of leashes on some dogs, the earliest known evidence in prehistory. The leashing of dogs not only shows a high level of control over hunting dogs before the onset of the Neolithic, but also that some dogs performed different hunting tasks than others.

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“…In addition to the timing and geographic location of dog domestication, the use of early domestic dogs, and the extent to which humans controlled them remain open questions (Shipman 2015;Perri et al 2015;Perri 2016). These activities leave virtually no trace in the archaeological record and thus remain difficult to address.…”

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Pre-Neolithic evidence for dog-assisted hunting strategies in Arabia

Guagnin

Perri

Petraglia

2018

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

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“…However, the biometric basis for identifying any large canids in Early Upper Palaeolithic Europe as dogs remains controversial (Boudadi-Maligne and Escarguel 2014;Morey 2014). So, too, do the taphonomic, ethnographic, and theoretical arguments adduced in its support (Perri et al 2015).…”

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Disease: A Hitherto Unexplored Constraint on the Spread of Dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) in Pre-Columbian South America

Mitchell

2017

J World Prehist

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“…Pleistocene humans became permanent residents at extremely low densities, not as the fierce hunters able to kill any animal in sight, as proposed occasionally (e.g. Bocherens et al, 2015, Richards & Trinkaus, 2009, Shipman, 2015, but as humble omnivorous foragers (e.g., Perri, Smith & Bosch, 2015), competing with the more numerous brown bears and wild boar. Early humans were predators of small game and prey of the big cats, like foragers of Africa and India still today:…”

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