According to a research team led by the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and the Paleoenvironment at the University of Tübingen, the transition from wild wolves to domesticated dogs in Europe may have occurred in southwestern Germany. between 16,000 and 14,000 years ago.
Therefore, the team of researchers assumes that Magdalenian humans domesticated and bred animals that came from different wolf lineages.
Canidae
In the study, whose results have been published in Scientific Reports, several Canidae fossils from a cave in that Central European region were analyzed with various methods. This includes, in addition to modern domestic dogs, wolves and foxes.
Gnirshöhle is a small two-chambered cave in southern Baden-Wuerttemberg that is located in the immediate vicinity of two additional caves from the Magdalenian era. Therefore, an origin of European domestic dogs could be found in southwestern Germany.
As explained Chris Baumann from the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and the Paleoenvironment at the University of Tübingen:
We linked morphology, genetics and isotopic characteristics, leading to the discovery that the bones examined originated from numerous different genetic lineages, and that the new genomes sequenced from the samples cover the entire genetic range from wolf to domestic dog.
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It was in Germany, between 16,000 and 14,000 years ago, when the European dog was born, according to a new study
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