woooof!.........................
Cats were first.
“This is the smoking gun because they (canines) are not really going after salmon in the wild,” archaeologist Ben Potter, University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Ben needs to get out more.
“Ancient canines are not genetically related to modern domesticated dogs,”
Sounds like bullshinto to me. I doubt that is true.
New research at indigenous Alaskan archaeological sites dates the origins of human-canid friendship in the Americas to 12,000 years ago, 2,000 years earlier than previous evidence.
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Keep in mind that NA was pretty much scowered, burned off by the Event 10900 BC that killed of the mega fauna, eliminated the Clovis people, ushered in the Younger Dryas Event which lasted 1000 years, and caused sea level to rise 400 feet.
What happened prior to that Event is spotty at best. So canines could have been pets long before that 12,000 date.
Nah. I am convinced that men and wolves cohabited in useful partnerships in various places at various times. I don’t belive for a second that one man found out one wolf would cooperate with him in exchange for food, and it just went linear from there. No way. I am sure there were hundreds or even thousands of such discoveries over time throughout the world, all independent of each other.
Sure, there would have been an “earliest” event, but nobody can or ever will prove it.