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Archaeology Southwest Highlights: Dogs in the Southwest
| Dogs in the Southwest Posted By: Kate Sarther - September 11th, 2008
Category: Archaeology Southwest Highlights | 
Volume 22, Number 3
Center for Desert Archaeology
Summer 2008
online highlights...
Dogs in the Southwest
Tobi Taylor, Center for Desert Archaeology, Alan Ferg, Arizona State Museum, and Dody Fugate, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
This photograph, titled Benjamin and His Brood of Little Dogs, was taken by David Burckhalter in Rancho San Pedro, Sonora, Mexico, on a cold morning in 1995. It illustrates many of this issue's themes. The dogs (and one cat) are clearly social animals, and they are part of a human household. Their relationship with their human companion structures their interaction among themselves, as well as with human society. |
This special theme issue of Archaeology Southwest explores some of the roles that dogs have played in the Southwest, from prehistory to the present.
Contributors discuss archaeological evidence of dogs; the changing roles and uses of dogs among various groups; their place in traditional stories; material culture made from dog bones and dog hair; depictions of dogs in Ancestral Pueblo, Mimbres, and Hohokam material culture as well as Southwestern and Yoeme art; their use as weapons against Native Americans by the Spaniards; and the ways in which dogs contribute to our sense of place.
Enjoy!
Articles include:
- Dogs in the Southwest - Tobi Taylor, Center for Desert Archaeology, Alan Ferg, Arizona State Museum, and Dody Fugate, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
- Early Dog Burials in the Southern Southwhest - Jennifer A. Waters, Desert Archaeology, Inc.
- Pueblo Dogs - Dody Fugate, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
- Pueblo Dog Tales - David H. Snow, Cross-Cultural Research Systems
- Basketmaker Dog-Hair Sashes from Obelisk Cave - Rachel Freer and Mike Jacobs, Arizona State Museum
- A Rare Breed - Alan Ferg, Arizona State Museum
- Canid Sacrifices from Homol'ovi I - Vincent M. LaMotta, University of Illinois at Chicago
- Itzcuintle: Ancient Mexican Dog Food - Marc Thompson, El Paso Museum of Archaeology
- When Is a Dog in Mimbres Art? - J.J. Brody, University of New Mexico
- Mimbres Dog Descendants - Tobi Taylor, Center for Desert Archaeology
- Hohokam Dogs and Iconography at Pueblo Grande - Steven R. James, California State University at Fullerton, and Michael S. Foster, Logan Simpson Design
- Dogs in the Desert: Repatriation - Alan Ferg, Arizona State Museum
- Going to the Dogs: studying Valley Fever in the Southwest - T. Michael Fink
- An Unsettling Image - William H. Doelle, Center for Desert Archaeology
- The Setting on of Dogs - Richard Flint, Center for Desert Archaeology
- Yoeme Dog Pascola Masks - Tom Kolaz, Southwest Center
- Old Dogs and Some New Tricks - Alan Ferg, Arizona State Museum
- Back Sight - William H. Doelle, President & CEO, Center for Desert Archaeology
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