About East Tennesse Dingos  My Photo Seymour, Tennessee, United
States  Sunday, January 26, 2014  factsheet from University of
Georgia, Savannah River Ecology Labratory  Primitive Dogs of the
Southeast  dog.gif (41059 bytes)When the first primitive humans
crossed the Bering land-bridge into North America from Asia,
they were accompanied by a primitive form of dog. The animals
resulted from the domestication of southwest Asian wolves in the
region of Iraq a few thousand years earlier. These small, non-
descript dogs moved quickly with their human companions down
through the western part of North America. Skeletal remains and
mummified bodies of these dogs have been found along with
artifacts from primitive Southwest Indians. From the Southwest,
these primitive dogs moved into the eastern United States.
Archaeological investigations have indicated their presence in
the southeastern forested woodlands. There they were companions
of the Indians of the Southeast long before the arrival of the
first European explore