An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v1.c6.s4.1

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Only a few prehistoric sites have yielded skeletal remains of the domestic dog (*Canis familiaris*). In India the earliest indisputable evidence comes from the Mesolithic levels of ADAMGARH. Clutton-Brock, 1965, identified the canid remains from LANGHNAJ as probably those of the Indian wolf—*Canis* cf. *lupus pallipes* on the grounds that the small teeth fall within the sizerange of the dingo (i.e. the cross between the wolf and pariah dog) and that the teeth are uncompacted (Degerbol, 1961). Dogs with skulls very similar to the Indian wolf have also been reported from Harappa (Prashad, 1936).