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How did dogs get to the Americas? An ancient bone fragment found in Southeast Alaska holds clues
Monday AM (SitNews) - The history of dogs has been intertwined, since ancient times, with that of the humans who domesticated them. But how far back does that history go in the Americas, and which route did dogs use to enter this part of the world? A new study led by the University at Buffalo provides insight into these questions. The research reports that a bone fragment found in Southeast Alaska belongs to a dog that lived in the region about 10,150 years ago. Scientists say the remains a piece of a femur represent the oldest confirmed remains of a domestic dog in the Americas. ....
It was an international effort that started on a long journey about 10,000 years ago through what is now a cave on the mainland, across Blake Channel from Wrangell Island. ....
Oldest dog remains in Americas discovered in Alaska A shard of bone tells the story of a canine companion that trekked into an icy new world, providing clues to the migrations of the earliest Americans. ByRobin George Andrews Email For about 20 years, specimen PP-00128 in the earth sciences collection of the University of Alaska Museum was thought to belong to a rather old bear. The femur fragment, small enough to hold between two fingers, had been excavated from a site along the southeastern Alaskan coast where archaeologists also uncovered the remains of fish, birds, mammals, and humans going back thousands of years. ....
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