A 2 THE DINGO DOG CHAP. 
an individual has been known to be partly flayed before moving. 
Dingo remains have been found in river-gravels in Australia 
where no human remains have been detected. This argues for its 
indigeneity ; but, on the other hand, it has been pointed out that 
man himself in the Australian continent goes back a very long 
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way into time, and may thus still have imported this companion 
with him. Anyhow it is quite a wild creature now. Dr. Nehring, 
an expert investigator into the subject of domestic animals, has 
stated that the skeleton of the Dingo does not suggest a feral 
animal at all but a purely wild race. 
The Domestic Dog is usually spoken of as Canis familiaris ; 
but to remains in bone caverns the name of C. ferus or CL miki 
has been given. There seems to be no doubt that the Dog was 
the “friend of man” in very early times. Its remains have been 
met with in Danish kitchen-middens, in the lake-dwellings of 
the Swiss lakes, and during the Bronze Age in Europe generally. 
But “there are few more vexed questions in the archaeology of 
natural history than the origin of the dog.” Its remains already 
referred to may in many cases have argued its use as food. But 
in a Neolithic barrow a Dog was found buried with a woman, the 
