- In HeroWars_at_yahoogroups.com, "Roderick and Ellen Robertson"
<rjremr_at_s...> wrote:
> Yep. And I don't know about John's assertion that dogs are little
use to the
> nomads - dogs were very useful to the Native Americans, and were
part of
> every village. As alarm systems they are extremely valuable, and
you can eat
> them if times are lean and the buffalo (err, Impala, Sables,
Alticameli,
> Herd men...) don't come.
Amerindians did not have horses till the 1600's. Before that, dogs
took the place of horses for many functions.
I am not sure how dog-o-centric the Berbers or Mongols were. They
seem to have been more horse and hawk people.
>
> Roderick
Jeff