PET DOGS 10,000 YEARS AGO. , Tito fact 'Unit, our ancestors: of about 10,000 years ago kept’ pet. dogs was revealed when Mr. Alexander Keillor described to the International Congress of Prehistoric and Photohistoric* Sciences at King!s‘-College, London, the results' of hjs excavations on Windmill Hill,,near Avebury Wiltshire (says the “Daily vMaiT’). Mr. lveiller said that he ! found' the bones of the earliest' domesticated dog ever discovered in Great; Britain. The people of those'days! had sheep, goats, pigs, and oxen in enormous quantities, (‘The oxen were.exceptionally numerous,” he said, “all of one breed, and of a type small in> stature, but with long horns. Some curious combs made of red deer antlers were found. They were used apparently,, for combing coarse hair skins. Similar bombs f are in use to-day: among, the Eskimos. Pins and awls of bone were in profusion, and there .was also aii exceptionally 'fine /burnisher only itho second of ils kind (found in Britain.'’ ' ’ ’’ '
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11760, 6 October 1932, Page 3
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