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10,000-year-old bone hints at how domesticated dogs may have traveled to Americas
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Ancient bone fragment holds clues on how dogs got to the Americas
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An ancient bone fragment holds clues to how dogs got to the Americas, researchers report.
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.
DNA from the bone fragment holds clues about early canine history in this part of the world.
Researchers analyzed the dog’s mitochondrial genome, and concluded that the animal belonged to a lineage of dogs whose evolutionary history diverged from that of Siberian dogs as early as 16,700 years ago. The timing of that split coincides with a period when humans may have been migrating into North America along a coastal route that included Southeast Alaska.
An Ancient Dog Bone Could Be Evidence of the Route Humans Took to North America
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The canine bone fragment, found in Southeast Alaska. (Image: Douglas Levere/University at Buffalo)
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A fragment of 10,000-year-old dog bone found along the Alaskan coast could be the oldest evidence of domesticated dogs in North America, and potential evidence of a coastal route taken by the first people to cross into North America from Eurasia.
Ancient Bone Fragment Holds Clues on How Dogs Got to North America
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