This suggests this lineage of dogs dispersed quickly from one end of Europe to the other in a matter of a few centuries at most... Intriguingly, these dogs spread across culturally and genetically different groups over those long distances...
The study also shows that these dogs were ancestral to modern European breeds.
https://phys.org/news/2026-03-ancient-dna-year-dogs-anatolia.html

Ancient DNA finds 15,800-year-old dogs in Anatolia, buried like humans
Evidence of some of the earliest dogs has been identified at two University of Liverpool/British Institute at Ankara archaeological excavation projects in central Anatolia, Turkey. Shedding new light on the development and spread of early domestic dogs, the findings are documented in two papers published in Nature.





