Dogs likely migrated to the Americas with humans over 15,000 years ago, study says
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Dogs have been following humans for thousands of years.
Archaeological and genetic data has revealed that dogs accompanied humans when they were migrating to the Americas from East Asia, according to a study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Dogs were likely domesticated over 23,000 years ago in Siberia, said lead study author and archaeologist Angela Perri, a research fellow at Durham University’s department of archaeology in the United Kingdom. Her team analyzed the genetic makeup of ancient dog remains to estimate when the domestication from wolves to dogs happened.
Dogs ‘were first tamed in Siberia’ and came with settlers to America 15,000 years ago Rob Waugh The first settlers in America were likely accompanied by dogs (Ettore Mazza)
The first settlers in America brought their own dogs with them 15,000 years ago from northeast Asia - hinting that humans first domesticated dogs in Siberia.
The new find suggests that humans first tamed dogs more than 23,000 years ago in Siberia, then travelled West into Europe and Asia and East into America.
The Americas were one of the last areas of the world to be settled by human beings - and by that point, dogs had been domesticated from their wolf ancestors.
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