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First Dogs: Hunter-Gatherers and Their Canine Companions from Prehistory to the Present book cover

1st Edition

First Dogs Hunter-Gatherers and Their Canine Companions from Prehistory to the Present

By Peter Mitchell Copyright 2027
350 Pages 143 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

350 Pages 143 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

First Dogs provides the first comprehensive overview of the relationships between humanity’s best friend (and oldest domestic animal) and hunter-gatherers. The book uses archaeological and anthropological evidence to explore the hunter-gatherer/canine relationship from the beginnings of the domestication process to the present. As well as looking at conventional case studies from the Global... Read more

List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; 1. Why Dogs? Why Hunter-Gatherers?; 2. Beginnings; 3. Expanding; 4. Hunting; 5. Moving; 6. Living; 7. Thinking; 8. Contending; 9. Hunter-Gatherers and Their Dogs; References; Additional Acknowledgements; Index.

Biography

Peter Mitchell studied Archaeology and Anthropology at Cambridge and obtained his doctorate from Oxford in 1987. After teaching in Cape Town and Wales, he returned to Oxford in 1995 where he is Professor of African Archaeology and Tutor and Fellow in Archaeology at St Hugh’s College. Along with a longstanding interest in the prehistory of southern African hunter-gatherers (which has involved extensive fieldwork in Lesotho) and Africa’s past more generally, he has written extensively on the archaeologies of dogs, donkeys, and horses. He is a past President of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists and co-editor of the journal Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa.

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