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In the history of Dalmatian a lot of not clear, however the numerous facts and researches of scientists allow to consider Dalmatian very much days as a breed of dog. In studying of ancient animals the big role is played by the skull form: on it define, the animal concerns what regular group and set of other biological features of an animal, whose remains are found.
In territory of Austria and Bohemia the remains of a so-called cindery (ashy) dog concerning by the end of a bronze age have been found in ashes adjournment (2-3 thousand years BC) . All group of ashy dogs in which the group of hounds originates, has the same structure of a skull. Not only the skull, and and the sizes of a body, trailing ears and a number of other signs testify that ashy dogs became ancestors of such breeds as bladhound, spaniels etc. However the skull Dalmatian, according to scientists, is especially similar to a skull of an ancient ashy dog. In the countries of the Mediterranean at the excavation concerning by 4000-2000 years BC, figures of spotty dogs of type Dalmatian have been found. Images of dogs with such rare colour meet since times of Ancient Egypt.
In the Louvre there is the limy relief concerning by 2140-1780 BC on which the dog very similar on Dalmatian is represented. Such dogs are mentioned by the Greek philosopher and naturalist Ksenofon (430-359 years BC) . In its opinion the dogs having one-colour , and an origin have usual while noble dogs, basically, happen motley. The image of a scene of dogs driving extraction with a colouring Dalmatian, made in Greece in epoch has well remained (1600-1100). Are known BC also other works of that time on which the dogs surprisingly similar on Dalmatian are represented. Remains a riddle why since I century BC up to XIII century AD dogs with similar colour do not meet neither in drawings, nor in descriptions.
Dalmatian Pictures
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