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Article: Dogs: A Fetching Account
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- The Washington Post
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- June 9, 1997
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A HISTORY OF DOGS IN THE EARLY AMERICAS
By Marion Schwartz
Yale. 233 pp. $27.50
Here, for dog lovers (and less noble folk), is a marvelously
informative history -- everything anyone could possibly want to know
about dogs in the Americas but would never have thought to ask.
Author Marion Schwartz, a lab technician in the anthropology
department at Yale University, takes us from prehistoric times to
the era of the conquistadors and beyond, as she surveys how Native
Americans from the northernmost reaches of Canada to the tip of
South America interacted with their dogs. Her sources are many:
remains uncovered in archaeological digs, songs, myths, legends,
hieroglyphics, sculpture and ...