Re: News: The Dog Trade

--- In cybalist@..., x99lynx@... wrote:

> A column in The Roanoke Time 10/6/02 on dog history (with some

inconsistent

> information re dog paleo-ancestry -- e.g., coyote genes have been

identified

> in Native American dog remains and Native Americans had dogs before
> Europeans, as the Aztec example shows).
>
> Interesting perhaps is the early reception of dogs claimed for

Arabia:

> "The first domesticated dogs appear to have originated in Central

and North

> Africa. About 10,000 years ago, the nomadic Berber tribesmen

started to

> supply other tribes along the Nile, in Cush and Egypt with hunting

dogs

> similar in appearance to the greyhound and Saluki. As the Egyptian
> civilization expanded, the people traded with Arabia, receiving

gold and gems

> in exchange for grain and dogs."
> http://www.roanoke.com/roatimes/news/story137662.html
>
> (BUT NOTE: DNA evidence would suggest that like the horse -- but

unlike the

> cow, sheep, pig and goat -- the dog was domesticated in a wide

variety of

> locations, rather than descending from one or two discreet lines.)
>
> SLong

Nonono. You have misunderstood the whole thimg. Everything, pigs,
dogs, copper, rice was domesticated and discovered in exactly two
places: Middle East/Europe and SE Asia. For some reason India is an
insurmountable barrier to the dispersion of these domesticoveries.
Apparently it induces a dream-like amnesia in those who try to travel
past it.

Torsten