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posted by CoolHand on Tuesday May 30 2017, @06:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the we-don't-breed-with-dogs-in-this-dept dept.

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/05/earliest-evidence-dog-breeding-found-remote-siberian-island

The hunter-gatherers of Zhokhov Island were a hardy folk. Nine thousand years ago, they survived frigid year-round temperatures in animal-skin tents some 500 kilometers north of what is now the Russian mainland, and they were the only people ever known to hunt large numbers of polar bears without firearms. Now it appears these ancient Arctic dwellers did something even more remarkable: They may have been among the first humans to breed dogs for a particular purpose. An analysis of canine bones from Zhokhov suggests the dogs there were bred to pull sleds, making this the first evidence—by thousands of years—for dog breeding in the archaeological record.

Archaeological dogs from the Early Holocene Zhokhov site in the Eastern Siberian Arctic

Previously: Dogs may have been Domesticated More Than Once (DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2017.04.003) (DX)


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 31 2017, @05:15AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 31 2017, @05:15AM (#518117)

    Dogs are better, much better than people. Even cats are better then people.

    As myself and the dog are owned by a tribe of cats, I have to agree...

    ..Older we get, more we are convinced.

    Interesting observation, only this week I was told a story about a local businessman who, as he got older, started referring to various people as 'XXX's father/mother' where XXX was the name of their dog(s). Some people took it as a sign of dotage, the guy who told me the story said that it was more a case of that after having to deal with people in a business capacity for decades, the businessman had gotten to the point where he realised that what passes locally for the average human wasn't worth bothering about, and that ones with dogs were marginally more interesting (but usually not interesting enough to remember their names, just that of their dogs..), so he started 'filtering'..

    As I said above, owned by a tribe of cats, despite that, have nothing against dogs, in fact, to a lesser extent than one of my sisters it appears I'm one of those people that dogs seem to naturally like. It's usually quite an amusing way to judge the character of a dog's owner by the way they react to the fact that their dog has suddenly decided that 'sod the walkies, I wants to come over and say 'hello' to that rather interesting human' when they pass by me whilst out walking them.

    The sad fact is, despite the best ministrations of their dogs, a lot of dog owners are arseholes.