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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.
Jul 5, 2018 · In a paper published Thursday in Science, an international team of archaeologists and geneticists reports that the lineage of dogs that thrived alongside Native Americans for thousands of years...
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Jun 2, 2016 · Dogs were the first domesticated animals, and their barks heralded the Anthropocene.
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
Jul 6, 2018 · The earliest New World dogs were not domesticated from North American wolves but likely originated from a Siberian ancestor. Furthermore, these lineages date back to a common ancestor that coincides with the first human migrations across Beringia.
- Máire Ní Leathlobhair, Angela R. Perri, Angela R. Perri, Evan K. Irving-Pease, Kelsey E. Witt, Anna ...
- 2018
Aug 20, 2009 · The going theory is that dogs were domesticated somewhere between 15,000 and 40,000 years ago. But, Boyko explains, genetic testing has not gone deep enough to come up with a more...
Mar 1, 2019 · More recent studies suggest humans may have first domesticated dogs some 6,400-14,000 years ago when an initial wolf population split into East and West Eurasian wolves, which were domesticated independently of each other and gave birth to 2 distinct dog populations before going extinct.