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      • There is archaeological evidence, such as figurines, pictures and even collars, that demonstrates that Israel’s neighbors kept dogs as pets, but from the skeletal remains found within the Levant, the domestication of dogs did not happen until the Persian and Hellenistic periods within Israel.
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  2. Jan 14, 2019 · Dogs were the earliest animals domesticated in China (c. 12,000 BCE) along with pigs and were used in hunting and kept as companions. They were also used, very early on, as a food source and as sacrifices.

    • Joshua J. Mark
  3. Mar 30, 2010 · In ancient Israel the dog was considered an unclean animal. Several verses in the Bible know the usefulness of watchdogs and sheep dogs, but for the most part we only read of half-wild, half-starving scavengers that prowl the city by night.

  4. Dec 3, 2017 · Archaeology of Dogs: Were They First Domesticated in the Middle East? Prehistoric rock art in Saudi Arabia adds to 13,000-year-old burials in Israel with pets, dog pottery in ancient Iran, a Phoenician predilection for pooch and canine cemeteries in Ashkelon

  5. Jun 2, 2016 · They concluded that dogs were domesticated somewhere in Europe or western Siberia, between 18,800 and 32,100 years ago. And genes aside, “the density of fossils from Europe tells us...

  6. After more than a century of argument and discussion, it is now generally agreed that the single progenitor of all domestic dogs, ancient and modern, was the grey wolf, Canis lupus, but when and where domestication first took place is still much argued about.

    • Juliet Clutton-Brock
    • 2016
  7. May 26, 2017 · The find may shed light on why dogs were domesticated in the first place. Though scientists don't agree on when this happened, recent research suggests it was at least 15,000 years ago . Significantly, this was around the time when Earth was beginning to warm, with large species like mammoths disappearing and smaller migrating game like ...

  8. Dogs have been a part of human life in ancient Israel and the Near East for almost as long as the archaeological record of the region. The remains of a presumably domesticated dog dated to 10,000 B.C.E. have been found in a cave in Iraq, and a puppy skeleton has been found in northern Israel next to that of a boy in a grave attributed to the ...

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