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Researchers untangle the complex relationship between colonial and Indigenous dogs during initial English settlement.

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Apr 15, 2021 03:01 PM EDT Archaeologists have found 6,000-year-old bones from a pet dog nearby the human remnants of its keeper at a burial site in Saudi Arabia. The remnants may be the earliest instance of dog domestication in the area, dating to about 1,000 years earlier than previous findings. (Photo : Brett Sayles) Royal Commission for AlUla (RCU)  The team of international researchers dug up the bones of the dog in 2018 after discovering the burial site in satellite imagery, as part of a large-scale archaeological survey by the Royal Commission for AlUla (RCU), which is a Saudi archaeol...

Since ancient hunter-gatherers couldn’t consume all the lean-meat protein they obtained, a sensible choice would have been to feed it to wolves, to keep them healthy while encouraging them to become more dependent on humans for sustenance. And as time passed, evolutionary forces would have worked their magic, gradually transforming tame wolves into even tamer domesticated dogs—or so the Finnish researchers assert, in their imaginative yet science-based reconstruction of dog domestication history. A Remarkably New Paradigm For Dog Domestication This theory of how dogs became domesticate...