11,500-year-old animal bones in Jordan suggest early dogs helped humans hunt
January 16, 2019, University of Copenhagen
Around 11,500 years ago, in what is now northeast Jordan, people began to live with dogs and may also have used them for hunting, according to a new study by archaeologists from the University of Copenhagen and University College London. They suggest that the introduction of dogs as hunting aids may explain the dramatic increase of hares and other small prey in the archaeological remains at the site.
Dogs were domesticated by humans as early as 14,000 years ago in the Near East, but whether this was accidental or deliberate remains unclear. The new research may suggest that humans valued the tracking and hunting abilities of early dogs more than previously known.
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