Shalmaneser
Tourist
"While historians and archaeologists have debated the controversial issue of gender within the division of labor, the role of women in the rearing and domestication of animals has mainly been credited to men. The academic community has assumed that dogs were used for assistance in hunting and herding, due to the influence of men. But can the story of domestication be that simple, especially when every region of the world has had a different experience when it comes to human survival?
The role of women in different cultures is not universal, with significant disparities regarding gender and division of labor , so why should we assume that only men were responsible for domestication? A closer look reveals that some of the oldest goddesses in human history have strong associations with the worship and rearing of dogs. Meanwhile, in the northern hemisphere, before the arrival of the Spanish and their horses, folklore and century-old ethnographies of the Blackfoot and Pawnee Plains Indians include accounts of American wolf/dog hybrids trained by women to haul supplies on travois for the sake of hunters."
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