Canaan Dog

An honest borderline case, and a useful one. The breed was formalised in the 1930s, when Rudolphina Menzel selected free-living dogs from Bedouin and village populations in Mandatory Palestine. The breed name is new, but the population she drew on was not: genome studies place the Canaan Dog among the divergent breeds alongside the Basenji and Saluki. The Persian-period dog cemetery at Ashkelon is often cited too, though bones of that age show a type of dog, not a breed.