Seeking Neolithic dogs Call for help | Forum

briga Mar 27, 2007 11:19:05

I'm researching dogs in the Neolithic in Britain and into the Bronze Age.

Dogs sometimes get the same sort of burial treatment as humans and with humans. What about on settlements are they treated differently? Are dogs Eaten? Tolerated? Appreciated? Offerings? A part of the cosmology?

Can anyone point me towards sites which have any dog remains please - even just one bone!

Experts on sites - A copy of an excavation report would be especially useful but the name of excavator and date published or anything in the Grey literature that you know of would be really useful.

It's a uni dissertation so, space allowing, contributors will get a mention. If peeps are interested I'll publish it on a website so it's available to everyone afterwards.

Rhiannon Mar 27, 2007 11:40:39

Replying to briga

As I've been struggling with an essay myself I'm going to take pity on you, heheh, but it's not actually very helpful as these sites aren't really neolithic, or if they are, who's to say when the dog bones arrived. This is only what I found with the search button
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/126
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/38785
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/30687
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/21638
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/11385
Perhaps it wasn't the done thing to be buried with your dog. But what does that mean? It's not the done thing now, and people love their dogs very much. Perhaps it's never been nice to sacrifice dogs. They are useful after all and you can't eat them.

Littlestone Mar 27, 2007 17:33:13

Replying to briga

Sorry about this briga - threads do go off at a bit of a tangerine sometimes :-) but you always come out of them knowing more than when you went in - not necessarily on the topic you wanted to know more about however ;-)