Emilius Oviatt Randall and Daniel Joseph Ryan discuss the presence of dog remains in the pre-historic site of Baum Village, Ohio.
Emilius Oviatt Randall and Daniel Joseph Ryan, The Rise and Progress of An American State, 5 vols. (New York: The Century History Company, 1912), 1:63
Here the bones of the prehistoric dog were found in great numbers, the only domestic animal attributed to these ancient people. The remains of this dog indicated, says Professor Lucas of the Smithsonian Institution, a “short faced dog, much the size and proportions of a bull-terrier, though probably not short haired.” Professor Putnam of Harvard University who has collected the bones of the prehistoric canine in all parts of the world and found the same type everywhere, says “this variety of god is apparently identical wit the pure blood Scotch collie of to-day”; and he further comments, “if this is the case, the prehistoric dog in America, Europe and Egypt and its persistence to the present time as a thoroughbred is suggestive of a distinct species of the genus canis, which was probably domesticated several thousand years ago, and also that the prehistoric dog in America, was brought to this continent by very early emigrants from the old world.”