Researches Upon the Antiquity of Man At An Indian Stone Blade Quarry in the ...
Researches Upon the Antiquity of Man At An Indian Stone Blade Quarry in the ...
Henry Chapman Mercer, Cope, Harte
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The fragment of the lower jaw of a dog or wolf (Canis sp.) found near these bones (see Fig. 43) was in all reasonable probability a part of the refuse deposited by Indians during the earlier period of the foundation of the heap. Here again, there- fore (though not for the first time in the shell heaps of Maine), is raised the interesting question of the relation of the domestic dog to native American peoples. We say much to indicate the status of culture of the pre- Columbian American when we s...ay that, ignorant of the goat, ass, sheep, cow, pig, or domestic fowl, he had lagged behind the later Stone Age people of Europe in the ingenious and use- Digitized by VjOOQ IC 124 ABORIGINAL SHELL HEAPS ON YORK RIVER, MAINE. f ul adaptation of animals to his daily needs. If he had neither seen nor tamed the American fossil horse (the Chinese Fu Sang account of a supposed discovery of America in the fifth century to the contrary),^ the llama in South America and the dog in both continents seem to represent the only animals that he had contrived to domesticate.
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