According to new findings by scientists at the University of Arizona, the dog (or the wolf) was domesticated more than 33000 years ago. This is based on the finding of two dog sculls (not wolf sculls) from Siberia and Belgium, both approximately 33 000 years old. According to the scientists this indicates that the dog has been domesticated several times and does not have one ancestor as the DNA has indicated, but several. This also means that there is now proof that out of all the domesticated animals we have today, the dog was the first one (and maybe apart from the cat, the only one) to choose a life by our side. For more about this here's a link to the original article:
In my opinion this doesn't indicate that the dog has been domesticated several times, but rather that the dog was domesticated long before we previously thought. I wouldn't be surprised if the dog was domesticated 100 000 years ago or maybe even earlier than that. The dog is so very in-tuned with our body language and gestures and we are so finely tuned to theirs (well for the most part) that we simply must have co-evolved for a very long time. But that is just my humble opinion.. But I didn't actually come up with that myself, it is from the BBC documentary "The secret life of the dog", part of which you can watch below.
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