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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.
The first people to settle in the Americas likely brought their own canine companions with them, according to new research which sheds more light on the origin of dogs.
An international team of researchers led by archaeologist Dr Angela Perri, of Durham University, UK, looked at the archaeological and genetic records of ancient people and dogs.
They found that the first people to cross into the Americas before 15,000 years ago, who were of northeast Asian descent, were accompanied by their dogs.
The researchers say this discovery suggests that dog domestication likely took place in Siberia before 23,000 years ago. People and their dogs then eventually travelled both west into the rest of Eurasia, and east into the Americas.
Credit: Ettore Mazza
The first people to settle in the Americas likely brought their own canine companions with them, according to new research which sheds more light on the origin of dogs.
An international team of researchers led by archaeologist Dr Angela Perri, of Durham University, UK, looked at the archaeological and genetic records of ancient people and dogs.
They found that the first people to cross into the Americas before 15,000 years ago, who were of northeast Asian descent, were accompanied by their dogs.
The researchers say this discovery suggests that dog domestication likely took place in Siberia before 23,000 years ago. People and their dogs then eventually travelled both west into the rest of Eurasia, and east into the Americas.