The hyperlink for the line, “most of them were shipped off and given to Europeans” goes to https://www.bioanth.ox.ac.uk/people/prof-greger-larson at “Oxford Biological Anthropology” (for what that may be see below). There’s no article directly linked discussing “shipping off” of early dogs, although one wonders how, well before UPS or the Silk Road, for that matter, “shipping” worked in 12,000 BC.
Anyway, this “professor” page cites three works:
- “Cultural and Scientific Perceptions of Human-Chicken Interactions”
- “Deciphering dog domestication through a combined ancient DNA and geometric morphometric approach”
- “Unifying Domestication and Evolutionary Biology through Ancient DNA”
Nothing on shipping there, but maybe that’s a specialist’s term we racist dog-owners aren’t party to.
I looked at the professor’s page. Not much on the projects listed, Human Chicken Interactions might be fascinating, we eat them. But the little info on the dog domestication page seemed to indicate the professor was simply doing research on the origins of domestication, one place or many. A legitimate inquiry. It appears all the white racist, cultural appropriation and shipping stuff is the imagination of this articles author, as is the use of eurasian as some sort of racial identification. And if whoever domesticated them “shipped” them to Europe, the must have been selling them. Early capitalists.