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Pre-Neolithic Evidence for Dog-Assisted Hunting Strategies in Arabia

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Your article review must meet the following GUIDELINES:

  1. Formal Essay Organization: Your review must follow formal essay guidelines, including an Introduction, a Discussion section, or essay “body”, and a Conclusion. Students can organize their essay with these headings for each section, but it is not necessary. (Essay Organization contributes to part of the 5 Style points, see below)
  1. The Introduction should include a brief summary of the article and the goals (purpose) of the study. Please do not re-iterate the article’s Abstract. A challenging aspect of the assignment requires students to write passages in their own words, expressing their own opinions, without plagiarizing the article’s text, or interpretations. Students can re-state the authors’ interpretations and conclusions, but it must be properly cited. Please see below for guidelines regarding Citing Sources and avoiding plagiarism. (2 Content points).
  1. The “body” of the essay, or Discussion, should include several parts. The first part should provide an overview of the research presented in the article, including the methodology, findings (results), interpretations (analyses) and the significance of those results (the article’s discussion/conclusions). (3 Content points)
  1. After the study overview, students must include a Discussion of Positive Aspects of the article. This discussion must address the following question: In your opinion, which aspects of the article are done well? (e.g., novel research question and/or methodology, clarity, readability) Explain your position. For both Positive Aspects, and Negative Aspects (see #5 below), other important questions to consider include: Do the study results support the discussion and conclusions presented in the paper? Did the authors adequately address the questions (goals) presented in the paper? (Note: since we do not expect first year undergraduates to fully understand the scientific methodology behind some of the studies, students are not required to critique the specific methodology or techniques that were used.) (4 Content points)
  1. A Discussion of Negative Aspects of the article. In particular: In your opinion, which aspects of the paper did the authors do poorly or insufficiently? Consider all of the questions asked above in #4, and also include a discussion of areas for improvement or further research. Alternatively, if students did not find any aspects of the article to be problematic, the essay must include a discussion on Suggestions for Further Research that would benefit, or build upon, the article’s findings or research goals. (4 Content points)
  1. A Conclusion: consisting of 2-3 paragraphs, the conclusion will re-state the purpose of the research, its findings and interpretations, and discuss the significance of the article to the field of anthropology. It must address the question: what does this research report contribute to our understanding of humankind?  (4 Content points)
  1. Bibliography of all cited references. This list consists of all material referenced in the assignment, including the reviewed article. In addition to the reviewed article, a minimum of three academic sources must be used. In-text citations and the bibliography must be formatted according to the Chicago Manual of Style, which is the citation standard recommended by the American Anthropological Association. Please see the end of this document for the guidelines. (3 Content points for the quantity and quality of citations and Bibliography formatting)

 

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Article Review: “Pre-Neolithic Evidence for Dog-Assisted Hunting Strategies in Arabia”
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Article Review: “Pre-Neolithic Evidence for Dog-Assisted Hunting Strategies in Arabia”
Introduction
The history of domestication and early use is a complex subject that has attracted the attention of numerous archeological scholars. The use of primeval dogs as hunting-aids, however, is not so evident from archaeological archives, and therefore, most analyses have relied on ethnographic evidence and have consequently remained controversial. While it is evident that dogs were the first wildlife to be tamed, and they descended from a grey wolf ancestor that was the first to be domesticated, it is still unclear on the time, locality, and number of taming centers. A lot of research work has pointed to East Asia as the cradle of domestication of dogs (Ding, 2012) while others have suggested Europe (Thalmann et al. 2013), Central Asia (Shannon et al. 2015) and the Levant (vonHoldt et al. 2010). The more recent research proposed multiple domestications in Europe and East Asia (Frantz et al. 2016). The current article under review, Pre-Neolithic Evidence for Dog-Assisted Hunting Strategies in Arabia, analyses the most primitive proof for dogs on the Arabian Peninsula from rock sculpture at the locations of Shuwaymis and Jubbah, in north-west Saudi Arabia.
There is evidence of dog-aided hunting tactics from the hunting extracts portrayed in the rock paintings. These paintings are estimated to be from the 7th and probably the 8th millennium BC, preceding the advent of pastoralism. While the dogs illustrated in the paintings are quite similar to the contemporary Canaan dog, it is still unclear whether they arrived at the Arabian Peninsula from the Levant or are representative of separate domestication of dogs from Arabian wolves. An extensive data set of one hundred and forty-seven hunting scenes depicts dogs taking part in an array of hunting tactics with regards to the environment and the landscape of the hunting location. Of paramount note is the presence of leashes for some dogs, most ancient evidence of leashing. According to the authors, the leashes suggest a high level of regulation over hunting dogs long before the Neolithic era.
Additionally, the leashes suggest that the dogs had specific tasks to perform in the hunting adventures. The researchers also discovered that there was a variance in the number of dogs per engraving between the two sites, this variation was attributed to environmental and topographical variations which necessitated location tailored hunting tactics. In this essay, we review and critique the article Pre-Neolithic Evidence for Dog-Assisted Hunting Strategies in Arabia.
Discussion
Overview of the Research
* Methodology
The authors use the case study methodology to study pre-Neolithic dog representations. The two sites chosen for this study were Jubbah and Shuwaymis in the northwestern part of Saudi Arabia. The authors implement qualitative research methodology to study ethnographic evidence of dog representations from before the new Stone Age, from secondary sources.
* Findings
From the two case stu...
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