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DOI	10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106430
	Dog body size in Siberia and the Russian Far East and its implications
	Losey R.J.; Nomokonova T.; Kosintsev P.A.; Bachura O.P.; Gusev A.V.; Vasyukov D.D.; Savinetsky A.B.; Tishkin A.A.; Grushin S.P.; Gorbunov V.V.; Papin D.V.; Sablin M.V.; Popov A.N.; Lazin B.; Nikitin I.G.; Bazaliiskii V.I.; Pitulko V.V.; Kasparov A.K.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	0277-3791
卷号	241
英文摘要	Body size is correlated with many critical behavioral and developmental patterns in carnivores, including domestic dogs. The body masses and bite forces of archaeological dog remains from Siberia and the Russian Far East were estimated to make inferences regarding their behaviors and capacitis. The dogs date from ∼10,000–100 cal. BP and derive from archaeological sites spanning from steppe environments in the south to tundra regions of the northern Arctic. The dogs exhibit a four-fold difference in body mass, ranging from 7.6 to 32.5 kg, but have a mean body mass of only 16.4 kg. Bite forces are around only half those of modern wolves, indicating that the dogs had greatly reduced abilities to grasp and masticate prey and food items. The dogs exhibit a slight decrease in body size through time, perhaps due to human selection or greater survival rates for smaller individuals in human-dominated food environments. Dog body size variance within individual archaeological sites was as high as in a sample of modern wolves from throughout the study area, suggesting little strict human control over body size. No correlation was found between body size and site latitude, suggesting that Bergmann's rule does not hold for these canids. Human shelters may provide a buffer against low temperatures that might favour larger body sizes at high latitudes. About 90% of the analyzed dogs have estimated body masses less than 21.5 kg, suggesting most were best adapted for procuring prey smaller than themselves—the dogs were not capable of taking down larger prey without the assistance of humans. Estimated dog body masses cannot eliminate the possibility that many of the animals were used for pulling sleds, and nearly all were capable of packing modest loads on their backs. Livestock guarding dogs are not well-evidenced by the body mass data, but herding dogs are a possibility in all of the pastoral or agricultural settings analyzed. © 2020 Elsevier Ltd
英文关键词	Archaeology; Body mass; Dogs; Domestication; Holocene; Russian far east; Siberia
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Agricultural robots; Agriculture; Architecture; Agricultural setting; Archaeological site; Domestic dogs; High Latitudes; Human control; Low temperatures; Russian far east; Survival rate; Anthropometry; archaeological evidence; Bergmann Rule; biostratigraphy; body mass; body size; canid; domestic species; fossil record; paleobiogeography; survival; tundra; Arctic; Russian Far East; Russian Federation; Siberia; Animalia; Canidae; Canis familiaris
来源期刊	Quaternary Science Reviews
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/151406
作者单位	Department of Anthropology, University of Alberta, Tory Building 13-15 HM, Edmonton, AB T6G 2H4, Canada; Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Saskatchewan, 55 Campus Drive, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5B1, Canada; Palaeoecology Laboratory, Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, Ural Division of the Russian Academy of Science, 8 Marta Street #202, Ekaterinburg, 620144, Russian Federation; Scientific Center of Arctic Studies, Respublika St. 20, Iamal-Nenets Autonomous District, Salekhard, 629008, Russian Federation; A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky Prospect 33, Moscow, 119071, Russian Federation; Department of Archaeology, Ethnography, and Museology at Altai State University, Lenin Prospekt St. 61, Barnaul, 656049, Russian Federation; Barnaul Laboratory of Archaeology and Ethnography of South Siberia at Altai State University, Dmitrova St. 66, Barnaul, 656049, Russian Federation; Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branc...
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Losey R.J.,Nomokonova T.,Kosintsev P.A.,et al. Dog body size in Siberia and the Russian Far East and its implications[J],2020,241.
APA	Losey R.J..,Nomokonova T..,Kosintsev P.A..,Bachura O.P..,Gusev A.V..,...&Kasparov A.K..(2020).Dog body size in Siberia and the Russian Far East and its implications.Quaternary Science Reviews,241.
MLA	Losey R.J.,et al."Dog body size in Siberia and the Russian Far East and its implications".Quaternary Science Reviews 241(2020).