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17 hours ago · The first English colonizers to settle in North America were forced to eat dogs during an intense period of hardship, as shown by new archaeological discoveries. The grisly remains of this mini ...
6 days ago · Severe Famine. 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. By analyzing DNA from Jamestown archeological dog specimens that dated ...
2 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.
2 days 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.
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17 hours ago · The dog remains showed evidence of bone modifications “consistent with human skinning, skeletal disarticulation, and meat removal” – meaning they were consumed by the colonists. “Dogs in ...
4 days ago · There is strong genetic evidence, however, that the first domestication events occurred somewhere in northern Eurasia between 14,000 and 29,000 years ago. In this region wolves likely facilitated their own domestication by trailing nomadic people in northern Eurasia and consuming the remains of game animals that hunters left behind.
4 days ago · There are 63.4 million households in the United States that have dogs. The number has steadily risen since 2000 with the exception of 2002 and 2015 when dog ownership declined. Since the beginning of the millennium, dog ownership in the United States has grown (American Pet Products Association, 2020). Some years showed a decline, such as in ...
