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Earliest American dog hints pets accompanied first people in Americas
Feb 24, 2021 51 secs

A bone fragment, found in south-east Alaska, belonging to a dog that lived more than 10,000 years ago.

Now, we may have the strongest evidence yet that early dogs even accompanied the first Americans as they moved along the Pacific coast.

Charlotte Lindqvist and her colleagues at the University at Buffalo in New York extracted DNA from the oldest known dog remains found in the Americas, and found the genetic signature is consistent with the idea that dogs first arrived in the region between 17,000 and 16,000 years ago – which is also roughly in line with the currently accepted time for the arrival of the first Americans.

“This dog belonged to a descent of very early dogs that moved into the New World soon after the ice age around 17,000 years ago,” says Lindqvist.

Archaeological and genetic evidence suggests humans also moved into the Americas roughly 17,000 years ago – several thousand years earlier than once thought.

If dogs also moved into the Americas about 17,000 years ago, they presumably did so with these coastal human communities

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