Hate to pester yet again

[wagrobanite]

As posted earlier I'm a Senior... well not only do I have that paper going on but I have two other research papers (one's a history one). My other history paper is on dogs in ancient north America (the class is America Before Columbus). I'm actually pretty excited about this paper seeing as I love dogs and I found out just by reading one of the

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[granola_dyke]

I don't know how helpful this is, but La Brea woman was found with a domesticated dog. It's probably going to be difficult to find information on, though. Good luck!

[tif123]

Molecular evidence of tuberculosis induced hypertrophic osteopathy in a 16th-century Iroquoian dog - RR Bathurst, JL Barta - Journal of Archaeological Science, 2004

[buboniclou]

The chihuahua was bred in pre-Columbian Mexico. I know that's outside of your geographic range but I wouldn't be surprised if there were similar breeds in the southwest.

Certainly there has to have been a lot of material written about the Eskimo / Inuit / husky breeds of dogs.

There is an effort underway by breeders to 'recreate' the "Native American Indian Dog" as a breed, in theory the common one domesticated in North America prior to white settlement. But there's a lot of mixed information out there, so you may not have much luck on finding the scientific veracity of it.

Also:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/03/0311_030311_firstdog.html

Good luck! I'd like to see what you find.

[wagrobanite]

LOL as someone who shows dogs (agility and confirmation) yah I know the Chi was bred in Northern Mexico... Our book talks about the Chihuahua mountains and the providence so I bet I could include it...

I will be looking at my zillions of dog books for stuff too :)

Oh you bet I'll share

[kenosis]

There's probably something about them in The Broken Spears. I know conquistadors loved using dogs in war.

[wagrobanite]

except I can't use anything that they wrote unless they wrote it while in North America. We're not covering anything basically south of the US border

[kenosis]

Yeah, that won't work then.

[wagrobanite]

Thanks so much though for trying to help! One of the books I do have does talk about dogs in the Maya and and Inca but unfortunately I can't use south of the US border (though I can use Canada *head shake at her professor*)