Our Oldest Companions

A lively tale of dog domestication and migration.NatureWhen, where, and how did the partnership between dogs and humans begin? Was it an accident? Was it inevitable?A tour de force drawing together under one proverbial roof what science can tell us to [...] Williams, author of The HorseMakes a remarkable story out of the long partnership between humans and dogs.Foreword ReviewsHow did the dog become mans best friend? A celebrated anthropologist unearths the mysterious origins of the unique partnership that rewrote the history of both species.Dogs and humans have been inseparable for more than 40,000 years. So what have they taught one another? Determined to untangle the genetic and archaeological evidence of the first dogs, Pat Shipman follows the trail of the wolf-dog, neither prehistoric wolf nor modern dog, whose bones offer tantalizing clues about the earliest stages of domestication. She considers the enigma of the dingo, not quite domesticated yet not entirely wild, and...