Palaeolithic dogs and the early domestication of the wolf: A reply to the comments of Crockford and Kuzmin (2012)

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 786-792

  Germonpré, Mietje ^a   Sablin, Mikhail V ^b   Després, Viviane ^c   Hofreiter, Michael ^d   Lázničková Galetová, Martina ^e   Stevens, Rhiannon E ^f   Stiller, Mathias ^g  

^a ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

^b ZOOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^c JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^e DEPARTMENT OF ENTOMOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aurignacian; Europe; Gravettian; Multivariate statistics; Palaeolithic dogs; Wolf domestication

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; CANID; DOMESTICATION; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; PALEOLITHIC; SOCIAL HISTORY;

EUROPE;

CANIDAE; CANIS FAMILIARIS;

EID: 84867909461     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2012.06.016     Document Type: Article

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