So much for stereotypes
Looks like early Americans did it, too! (I'm half-Asian, btw, so I've heard it all through my life)
Oldest Domesticated Dog in Americas Found-Was Human FoodPeople in North America were breeding-and eating-domestic dogs as early as 9,400 years ago, according to new analysis of a bone fragment discovered in a Texas cave.
Scientists were able to identify the bone-about the size of an adult's pinkie nail-as a piece of the right occipital condyle of a canine. Occiptal condyles are parts of vertebrate skulls where the skull meets the spine.
Genetic tests later proved that the bone comes from a dog and not a wolf, coyote, or fox.
The bone is the earliest known evidence of dog domestication in the Americas, predating other claims by nearly 8,000 years, said study co-author Samuel Belknap III, a graduate student at the University of Maine's Climate Change Institute.
Oldest Domesticated Dog in Americas Found-Was Human FoodPeople in North America were breeding-and eating-domestic dogs as early as 9,400 years ago, according to new analysis of a bone fragment discovered in a Texas cave.
Scientists were able to identify the bone-about the size of an adult's pinkie nail-as a piece of the right occipital condyle of a canine. Occiptal condyles are parts of vertebrate skulls where the skull meets the spine.
Genetic tests later proved that the bone comes from a dog and not a wolf, coyote, or fox.
The bone is the earliest known evidence of dog domestication in the Americas, predating other claims by nearly 8,000 years, said study co-author Samuel Belknap III, a graduate student at the University of Maine's Climate Change Institute.