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This book traces the evolution of the dog, from its origins about 15,000 years ago up to recent times. The timing of dog domestication receives attention, with comparisons between different genetics-based models and archaeological evidence. Allometric patterns between dogs and their ancestors, wolves, shed light on the nature of the morphological changes that dogs underwent. Dog burials highlight a unifying theme of the whole book: the development of a distinctive social bond between dogs and people; the book also explores why dogs and people relate so well to each other. Though cosmopolitan in overall scope, the greatest emphasis is on the New World, with an entire chapter devoted to dogs of the arctic regions, mostly in the New World. Discussion of several distinctive modern roles of dogs underscores the social bond between dogs and people.
- Sales Rank: #608223 in eBooks
- Published on: 2010-04-12
- Released on: 2012-09-28
- Format: Kindle eBook
Review
"Like a hound on scent, Darcy Morey pursues the dog down the twisting paths of prehistory to its wolf origins and then tracks back through the dense tangle of contemporary genetic and neurological research to show how it came to capture our homes and hearts. [This book] is a work of love and of intellect that confirms Morey as our foremost dog archaeologist."
-Mark Derr, author, A Dog's History of America and Dog's Best Friend
About the Author
Darcy Morey received his Ph.D. in anthropological archaeology in 1990 from the University of Tennessee, in Knoxville. Subsequently, he spent a year as a guest researcher at the University of Copenhagen Zoological Museum in Denmark. He was there for the express purpose of studying dog remains from archaeological sites in arctic Greenland. In addition to participating in archaeological fieldwork there in 1990, he has worked in Norway, France, and Denmark, as well as numerous places in the United States. He has published actively on a variety of topics, with his work on dogs being especially prominent. On that general topic, he has published as sole or senior author many articles and book reviews in journals such as Arctic, Journal of Archaeological Science, Quarterly Review of Biology, Archaeozoologia, Current Anthropology, and Journal of Alabama Archaeology. Dr Morey has also published on the topic of dogs in popular science outlets, for example the American Scientist and La Recherche. He joined the faculty at the University of Kansas in Lawrence in 1998. There, in addition to his ongoing research activities, he was selected by students as the most notable teacher of undergraduates in his department (Anthropology) in 2000. In addition, in 2002 he was elected to the Alpha Pi chapter of Phi Beta Delta, The Honor Society for International Scholars. He resigned from the University of Kansas in 2006 and began working at the University of Tennessee, Martin.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
An enriching book addressing a fascinating question
By A. Christie-miller
I read this book as a lay person with no specialist knowledge either in the fields of canine evolution, anthropology, or archaeology. In fact I had not even read much about dogs. I had recently gotten interested in the question of how, when and why dogs emerged from wolves, and what the answers to these questions might tell us about the nature of their relationship with humans.
Anyone interested in this issue, which to me is a fascinating one, will find here a book that brings to bear a wealth of academic research, painstakingly weighed and evaluated. It is important to emphasize that this is an academic book. Morey views his subject largely through the lens of his own particular field of expertise: archaeology. But it nonetheless does have appeal to a lay reader with a little patience and a passion for the particulars of a given issue. Particularly interesting is the way in which Morey undermines the common assumption that dog domestication was an exclusively human-driven process, but in fact may have been much more of a two-way street than we imagine. His discussion of the affinities between wolf packs and human families, and consequently between the brains of the two species, is also fascinating.
12 of 16 people found the following review helpful.
Good book, worth the read.
By M. Carter
I used to think the order of the world was cat-man-dog. While this book did not change my view that the cat is still at the top, even my dog won't argue that despite the ten to one size advantage. I now am beginning to think we may have been domesticated by dogs rather than the other way around. For anyone who has read a book by an academic, you won't be disappointed. He is very much an academic, and writes like one. It is far more lively than a book on Tensor Calculus, don't worry. I found it interesting. While I read a lot of books on the subject of dogs, including from other academics, I did learn quite a bit. More than just facts, but perspective. Our relationship with dogs is about the social bond more than any of the physical aspects of dogs. The success of human training techniques in improving he relationship we have with our companions is re-enforced by this work at least for me. I have recommended the book to other dog people.
17 of 25 people found the following review helpful.
A coma-inducing bore of a book by a man obsessed.
By Johnathan James
I asked for this book for Christmas, as I'd seen it advertised in one of the science magazines I regularly read. I'm very much into learning about dogs and their general history, so when I saw that this was a "new" release, I was hoping that it would offer something...well, new.
There are two things one must know before picking up this book:
1) Morey lies in the "preamble" with this statement: "The essential goal here is that this volume be useful to specialists with particular areas of interest, and simultaneously accessible to lay readers. In keeping with that goal, I have attempted to write in a style that is clear and avoids pretentious academic jargon." This "volume" is anything but for the layman, and unless you're deeply rooted in anthropological studies, you won't find it engaging.
2) Morey is completely obsessed with dog burials (not just of the burials and the archaeological "evidence" itself, but as the indicator of *precisely* when dogs were first domesticated). The book would've done much better with a title that reflected as much.
Granted, I should've known beforehand that this was going to be a chiefly academic book (the pricing reminded me of my college days); but I've read academic books on dogs that are not at all like this. While it's certain and true that Morey believes he knows what he's talking about, it's not an "informative" book in that I would recommend it to fellow dog enthusiasts. I got so tired of his droning on about dog burials that I skipped ahead a couple of chapters to what I thought was where the meat of the argument was supposed to be--Chapter 8, which started to talk about the brain changes of canines that became domesticated vs. the wolf, but I came to realize that it was but a cursory glance at the evidence (and then he was, again, mentioning dog burials).
The thing that irritated me most about his dog burial fixation is that Morey is (in so many words) insistent that the only "right" evidence is the Bonn-Oberkassel dog's remains (which are about 14,000 years old). He dis-counts Mietje Germonpré's work with the Goyet Cave dog remains, which were confirmed to be around 31,000 years old (but because he doesn't believe in their discriminant function analysis methods and because he states that "the skull from Goyet is not even securely linked to the deposits that reflect human activity there" (pp.27)). He dis-counts the 26,000 year-old cave prints (boy's footprint, dog's paw print) from Chauvet Cave because of the idea that it's entirely possible that the prints were not made simultaneously. All this in favor of the known "secured" evidence of the Bonn-Oberkassel dog burial...while forgetting that the "if" premise that he used to dis-count all other theories/"evidence" MUST apply to him, too: It's entirely possible that we have just *not found* existing evidence of a "dog burial" that is older than Bonn-Oberkassel *yet*, and that is what zooarchaeologists are trying to do (after all, just how many mammoth and mastodon remains have been found *just* in the past four years?).
The point is is that there is really scant information in this book about the actual development of the *social bonding*, and nothing that I didn't already know from reading other books by other authors in language that wasn't riddled with jargon and jam-packed with items that only specialists would care to glance at. The book comes off as excessively arrogant (he seems to also carry a few grudges with other "professionals" in his footnotes), and amazingly, Morey even excuses D.J. Brewer's academic plagiarism of his own words, muting it as "influence of thought" (when it was CLEARLY plagiarism).
I'm going to cut this short and just say that I would not recommend this to my fellow animal loving friends. It would be a great addition to your library if you're 1) an anthropologist, 2) an extreme dog lover and/or 3) an extreme masochist (by the time I got to Chapter 6 it was like coming out of a coma and wondering if I'd learned anything). There are several other books out there by other authors that are far more engaging on this same subject.
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