"The first study analyzes canid remains from two sites: Pnarbas, on the Central Anatolian Plateau, and Gough's Cave, in Somerset, UK. The fragments from Pnarbas are extraordinarily small, but the team still managed to extract enough nuclear DNA to confirm that they were domestic dogs and not wolves."
"New research pushes the date of the oldest domestic dog back to 15,800 years ago, during the late Upper Paleolithic, when all humans were still hunter-gatherers and no other domesticated animals existed."
A dog gave birth to puppies 15,800 years ago in central Anatolia, Turkey. The puppies were buried by humans alongside their dead. New research identifies one puppy as the oldest genetically confirmed domestic dog, pushing back the timeline of dog domestication by over 5,000 years. Previously, the earliest evidence dated to 10,900 years ago in Russia. The studies analyzed canid remains from Pnarbas and Gough's Cave, confirming the remains were domestic dogs and not wolves, with significant DNA extraction from small bone fragments.
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