New insight into how dog and man hunted side by side, over 8 000 years ago
Ancient carvings recently discovered in caves in the Saudi desert are the first to show dogs on leads.
Rock art just discovered shows hunting dogs bringing down prey and others standing by the sides of men, ready to be loosed from leads. The carvings are believed to be from the Holocene period, which came just after the end of the Paleolithic ice age, says Dr Michael Petraglia, an archaeologist from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, in Germany. He is a co-author of a study, which appeared in the ‘Journal of Anthropological Archaeology’ and was first reported by ‘Science’.
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