Bones from the turn of the Holocene indicate that humans were feeding canines—including wolves and coyotes—fish over 10,000 years ago,
Who let the dogs out? It remains unclear, but researchers are now one step closer to knowing how humankind’s canine companions got their start., offers specific timestamps for domestication—or something resembling it—from 76 ancient canid fossils found across Beringia.
In other words, domestication happened to varying degrees, in different places, and at different points in the prehistoric past. That ambiguity is endorsed by, which suggested that prehistoric humans used early dogs as hunting partners, but some of the other canids were drawn to humankind by our rubbish piles and food.
Though domestication has yielded breeds as disparate as the chihuahua and the great dane, some modern dogs still have a strong resemblance to their ancient forbears; in 2020, a different research team found thathave an unbroken genetic ancestry dating back to the end of the last ice age. Since ancient wild canids would not regularly hunt for salmon, the fishy finds are a useful barometer for when some of the animals began to warm up to humankind.
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