Dwarf (chondrodysplastic) dogs of antiquity
A: Restoration of a Tlalchichi dog from Aztec Mexico, dating to about 100 B.C. (after original illustration by César Fernández, reported in Azúa et al., 2013).
B: Dwarf bitch with brindle coloration from the Tomb of Khnumhotep, near Beni Hassan, Egypt. Khnumhotep was a scribe of the 12th Dynasty, about 1850 B.C. (from Churcher, 1993).
Dwarf dogs of antiquity
A: Restoration of an Inca dog from near Lima, Peru (after Gutierrez, 2019, and Wylde, 2017).
B: Restoration of a Roman-era dog from near Leicester, England, dating to the second century A.D. (Restoration by the author after Baxter, 2002, and pers. comm. from Dr. Baxter).
Historical dwarf dogs
A: Sketch made by Paul Kane in 1847 of a Coast Salish Woolly Dog. Most skeletal remains of…
