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- From: gil@tillage.DIALix.oz.au (Gil Hardwick)
- Newsgroups: sci.anthropology
- Subject: [ARCH] Re: Which Came First, Agriculture or Pastorial
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- References: <1992Dec17.151215.4959@watson.ibm.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 03:16:24 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec17.151215.4959@watson.ibm.com> andrewt@watson.ibm.com writes:
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- > In article <BzD7qt.4u@NeoSoft.com> claird@NeoSoft.com (Cameron Laird) writes:
- > >Well-attested dog remains have been found dating back around 10,000 years
- > > in Idaho, Britain, Turkey, ... (what's the archaeology of dingos?
- >
- > The oldest date for Dingos I've seen is 3,500 years BP. Exactly who
- > brought them to Australia and why is open for debate. Flood's
- > "The Archaeology of the Dreamtime" should discuss this.
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- In her opening remarks to Ch.15 Flood offers:
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- "Some time after 6,000 years ago, the dingo appears in Australia
- . . . certainly introduced from Asia, probably deliberately but
- possibly as castaways." (p. 186)
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- But that chapter, while entitled 'Arrival of the dingo', actually
- discusses together a number of new elements introduced to Australia at
- about the same time, although giving backed blades and points a more
- definite priority. Her discussion indicates that while its origins
- remain uncertain it appears most closely related to the Indian pariah
- dog whose ancestry dates apparently from 3,500 to 4,000 years ago,
- than any other found in contemporary Asia or Melanesia.
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- The animal as it is in its semi-domesticated state, as it still does
- today, appears far more useful around the camp to keep people warm at
- night and to keep guard. I have not known them myself to be used as
- hunting dogs even casually; it is far easier for a human to take a
- kangaroo or emu by stealth (and/or entrapment in some parts) than to
- have a pack of untrained and most definitely ill-bred fighting dogs
- at heel.
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