Ancient canids of the Aleutian Islands (new archaeological discoveries from the Islands of Four Mountains)

• Published in: Quaternary Research
• Main Authors: Vasyukov, Dmitry D., Krylovich, Olga A., West, Dixie L., Hatfield, Virginia, Savinetsky, Arkady B.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2019
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Earth-Surface Processes; Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous); Arctic; Ulyagan; aleut; Archipelago; Alaska; Aleutian Islands
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/qua.2019.2; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0033589419000024

Abstract We discuss the cultural roles of dog and red fox recovered from Carlisle Island, Islands of Four Mountains, Alaska, within the context of Aleutian ethnographic and zooarchaeological records. Three dog bones were recovered from the Ulyagan archaeological site, Unit 5, in levels that date to...