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Jul 6, 2018 · Dogs were present in the Americas before the arrival of European colonists, but the origin and fate of these precontact dogs are largely unknown. We sequenced 71 mitochondrial and 7 nuclear genomes from ancient North American and Siberian dogs from time frames spanning ~9000 years.
Dec 26, 2018 · The domestication of dogs likely occurred in Eurasia by 16,000 years ago, and the initial peopling of the Americas potentially happened around the same time. Dogs were long thought to have accompanied the first migrations into the Americas, but conclusive evidence for Paleoindian dogs is lacking.
- Angela Perri, Chris Widga, Dennis Lawler, Terrance Martin, Thomas Loebel, Kenneth Farnsworth, Luci K...
- 2019
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Jul 6, 2018 · The earliest New World dogs were not domesticated from North American wolves but likely originated from a Siberian ancestor.
The presence of early dogs in the pre-contact Americas is often assumed to be the result of companion animals arriving from across the Ber-ing Land Bridge with migrating Pleistocene human populations (Fiedel 2005; Schwartz 1998; van Asch et al. 2013).
- Angela Perri, Chris Widga, Dennis Lawler, Terrance Martin, Thomas Loebel, Kenneth Farnsworth, Luci K...
- 2019
Dogs were the first animals to be domesticated by humans. The oldest remains of dogs that can be clearly distinguished from those of wolves
Aug 18, 2020 · Records of domestic dogs in the Americas include specimens from North American sites dating as far back as 10,000 to 8,400 ybp and from the Andes of South America from 5,600-5,000 ybp. Dogs...