Sentences with phrase «date of dog domestication»
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Radiocarbon dating reveals the dogs lived between 450 and 300 B.C.E., the earliest evidence yet for animal management and domestication by the Mayans, the researchers report today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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They date dog domestication to between 11,000 and 16,000 years ago, before the rise of agriculture.
To date, Southeast Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia have all been proposed as potential locations for the origin of dog domestication based on modern genomic data, archaeological evidence and ancient mitochondrial lineages5, 7,9,33.