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Humans and dogs have been sledding together for nearly 10,000 years. Sled dogs have also evolved adaptations to ... ancient canid—a Siberian Pleistocene wolf that lived about 33,000 years ago.
Although these dogs were genetically homogenous between 7,000 and 9,500 years ago, at least 2,000 years ago they began to show signs of genetic influence from dogs who originated further west.
In the frozen reaches of Greenland, a humble dog sits beneath a sky smeared with pale sun. Its breath makes tiny clouds in the cold air. Its paws, broad and calloused, press into the snow. This is the ...
"Ten thousand years ago, there was a change in the technology with grinding stones appearing for the first time," Janetski said. "People started to use these tools to process small seeds into flour." ...
Dog droppings from over 3,400 years ago indicate dogs' gut microbes produced an enzyme, amylase, that allowed them to eat starch long before their DNA adapted to an omnivorous diet.
A dog that was born 11,000 years ago stumbled across the elixir of life, and is still alive today. It didn’t find immortality through a diet of mung beans or daily doses of resveratrol .
BYU archaeologists find a Utah site occupied by humans 11,000 years ago The researchers documented a variety of dishes the people dined on back then Grinding stones for milling small seeds appeared 10 ...