I provide ethnographic, ethnohistorical, and archaeological data on human–dog relations in Inner Asia, specifically from a forested mountain environment of southern Siberia where I conducted observations with Soiot and Tofa herding and hunting communities. The work contextualizes three aspects of Soiot dog–human relations: sensory collaboration (interspecies perspectival sharing), autonomous social interaction (communal dog sharing), and cosmological relatedness (expressed through funerary rites). Emphasizing dogs as subjects, the article identifies canine-related practices of potentially deep historical and archaeological significance across Inner Asia. Discussing ethnographic dog–human relations as an aid to zooarchaeological interpretation, I seek to contribute south Siberian insights on canine domestication and co-evolution to ongoing debates on mobile and semi-mobile hunter-gatherer and pastoralist societies.

我提供了关于内亚人狗关系的人种学、人种历史和考古数据，特别是来自西伯利亚南部森林覆盖的山区环境，我在那里对 Soiot 和 Tofa 放牧和狩猎社区进行了观察。这部作品将 Soiot 犬与人类关系的三个方面置于语境中：感官合作（跨物种视角共享）、自主社交互动（公共狗共享）和宇宙相关性（通过丧葬仪式表达）。文章以狗为主题，确定了整个内亚地区具有潜在深刻历史和考古意义的与犬相关的实践。讨论民族志狗与人类的关系作为对动物考古学解释的帮助，