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.