A couple of articles published in the last month or so have continued the debate as to the earliest domestication of the dog.
Images of the canid from Razboinichya Cave, Altai Mountains, Siberia
The oldest dog-like characteristics on what some scholars are now calling "European Paleodogs" is still from Goyet Cave in Belgium, but the two new articles are supporting evidence that the transition from wolf to dog was in Europe or Eurasia about 35,000 years ago. Calling this "domestication" is problematic, which is after all what archaeology is all about anyway.
- Read more about the latest findings on dog domestication
Germonpré M, Láznicková-Galetová M, and Sablin MV. 2012. Palaeolithic dog skulls at the Gravettian Predmostí site, the Czech Republic. Journal of Archaeological Science 39(1):184-202.
Ovodov ND, Crockford SJ, Kuzmin YV, Higham TFG, Hodgins GWL, and van der Plicht J. 2011. A 33,000-Year-Old Incipient Dog from the Altai Mountains of Siberia: Evidence of the Earliest Domestication Disrupted by the Last Glacial Maximum. PLoS ONE 6(7):e22821. Open Access
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