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Ancient DNA finds 15,800-year-old dogs in Anatolia, buried like humans

Evidence of some of the earliest dogs has been identified at two University of Liverpool/British Institute at Ankara archaeological excavation projects in central Anatolia, Turkey. Shedding new light on the development and spread of early domestic dogs, the findings are documented in two papers publ...

Ancient DNA finds 15,800-year-old dogs in Anatolia, buried like humans
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Evidence of some of the earliest dogs has been identified at two University of Liverpool/British Institute at Ankara archaeological excavation projects in central Anatolia, Turkey. Shedding new light on the development and spread of early domestic dogs, the findings are documented in two papers published in Nature.

Originally published at Phys.org

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