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Oldest Domesticated Dog Remains Discovered in Americas

A 13,100-year-old dog tooth from a cave site in Haida Gwaii is the earliest evidence of dog domestication in the Americas to date

Dec 15, 2021
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A new fascinating paper has been published summarizing the significant archaeological findings of over two decades worth of excavations of the caves of Haida Gwaii.1 In collaboration with Parks Canada and the Haida Nation, the archaeologists that conducted these digs have yielded the oldest evidence of dog domestication in the Americas.

Among the myriad other artifacts, archaeologists found stone tools dating to roughly 11,000 years ago. Fedje et al.
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