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In Short

  • Researchers unearthed a tibia, or lower leg bone
  • Radiocarbon dating revealed that this canine lived around 12,000 years ago
  • This finding suggests that these early canines relied on humans for food

A new study led by researchers at the University of Arizona has pushed back the timeline for human-dog relationships in the Americas to approximately 12,000 years ago.

The new study revealed that early Indigenous peoples may have interacted closely with canines much earlier than previously thought.

Published in Science Advances, this research is based on archaeological findings from Alaska, shedding light on the origins of one of humanity's oldest partnerships.
The study's lead author, François Lanoe, an assistant research professor at the University of Arizona, emphasised the significance of these findings. "We now have evidence that canids and people had close relationships earlier than we knew they did in the Americas," he stated.

This discovery raises intriguing questions about whether the first Americans arrived with dogs, a topic that has long captivated anthropologists.

The researchers unearthed a tibia, or lower leg bone, from an adult canine at Swan Point, an archaeological site located about 70 miles southeast of Fairbanks, Alaska.

 

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