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Stone Age dog skeleton hints at complex early relationship with pets [newscientist.com]:

An “extremely rare” 16,000-year-old canine skeleton from southern France offers evidence that Stone Age humans cared for their pets – although the animal was also probably killed by humans.

“It is feasible that the individual obtained [its] injuries from being beaten or struck by people,” says Loukas Koungoulos [researchgate.net] at the University of Western Australia, who was not involved in the analysis of the skeleton.

The specimen was discovered in a French cave called Baume Traucade in 2021 by a group of spelunkers.

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