| Abstract: |
The prehistoric settlement site of Ban Chiang has yielded the remains of canid bones covering the period from c. 3500 BC to the present. These, and bones from related sites in northeast Thailand, were compared by multivariate means, with modern comparative samples of the wolf, dingo, cuon and jackal. Both in terms of size and shape, the prehistoric dog, though small, has affinities with the wolf. Since wolves are not indigenous to Thailand, the prehistoric dog was an exotic feature of the first agriculturalists there, and raises interesting problems on their origins.
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