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3 weeks agoHumans Had Dogs Before They Had Farming, Ancient DNA Confirms
Dogs were domesticated by hunter-gatherer societies in Europe around 14,000 years ago, predating agriculture.
The groundbreaking research, published in the journal Nature, pushes back the oldest genetic evidence for domestic dogs by 5,000 years, revealing that hunter-gatherers were feeding the animals and giving them ritual burials long before the emergence of agriculture.