Articles for tag: ancient dogs, archaeology, indigenous cultures, North American history, prehistoric canines

Ancient Dogs of the Americas: What Archaeology Reveals

Ancient Dogs of the Americas: What Archaeology Reveals

Andrew Alpin

Step into the fascinating world of our four-legged ancestors. You might be surprised to learn that dogs have been walking alongside humans in the Americas for far longer than previously imagined. Recent archaeological discoveries have completely transformed our understanding of these ancient canine companions. The story of American dogs begins thousands of years ago with ...

Ancient Dogs of the Americas: What Archaeology Reveals

Suhail Ahmed

Archaeologists are piecing together an intimate story that starts in cold winds and ends at familiar hearths: the rise, spread, and loss of the first American dogs. For decades, bone fragments and burial pits hinted at a partnership as old as the earliest settlements, but the plot thickened when geneticists began extracting ancient DNA from ...