Ancient DNA from Britain & Turkey confirms dogs were widespread across Ice Age Europe by 15,800 years ago — genetically similar across three distinct human cultures long before farming existed. What do we actually know about the first dogs? #Palaeogenomics #Zooarchaeology #HumanEvolution #Dogs https://www.anthropology.net/p/before-the-first-harvest-ancient
Before the First Harvest: Ancient DNA and the Paleolithic Dogs of Europe

Two companion studies push the genetic record of domestic dogs back nearly 5,000 years, revealing a population that spread across genetically distinct human cultures before farming existed

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