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23 hours ago · In 2021, a literature review of the current evidence infers that domestication of the dog began in Siberia 26,000-19,700 years ago by Ancient North Eurasians, then later dispersed eastwards into the Americas and westwards across Eurasia.
23 hours ago · The first English settlers in North America, struggling to survive during the harsh early years of colonization, resorted to consuming indigenous dogs. Recent archaeological discoveries in Jamestown, Virginia—the site of the first permanent English settlement—reveal that the settlers ate dogs during a period known as the "Starving Time ...
5 days ago · The timing and location of dog domestication is a matter of debate. There is strong genetic evidence, however, that the first domestication events occurred somewhere in northern Eurasia between 14,000 and 29,000 years ago.
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- Barking is a way for dogs to communicate with other dogs and with humans. Fierce barking or growling often signals that dogs are being territorial,...
- A dog may sniff other dogs’ rear ends to gather chemical information that helps the sniffer identify them as individuals. Gland-lined sacs, housed...
- Many people have learned that one human year equals roughly seven dog years. However, this is a huge oversimplification. How a dog ages is based la...
- Beginning when dogs are six weeks old, a series of four doses of combined vaccines against distemper, hepatitis, parainfluenza, and parvovirus are...
- Whether cities should enact breed-specific legislation (BSL, or "pit bill bans") for dogs is widely debated. Some see BSL as a humane way of making...
3 days ago · New research reveals that during a period of starvation at Jamestown, the first English settlement in North America in the 17th century, dogs with Indigenous ancestry were eaten. The study was published on May 22 in American Antiquity by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Society for American Archaeology.
May 22, 2024 · While it’s widely accepted among the research community that dogs became domesticated at least 15,000 years ago, this study suggests (but doesn’t decisively prove) that domestication began 20,000 years ago; Modern dogs are not as genetically diverse as ancient dogs once were
1 day ago · The first English settlers in North America ate indigenous dogs to survive during an intense period of starvation, archaeologists have discovered.. Researchers at the University of Iowa uncovered the remains of six dogs of indigenous ancestry, which were eaten by the settlers in Jamestown, the first permanent settlement.
May 22, 2024 · Researchers determined that, based on archeological evidence indicating butchering, Jamestown residents ate dogs during the first few years of settlement, during the ‘Starving Time’ of the winter of 1607, and in the period following that from 1610 to 1617.
