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... or dogs were domesticated 100,000 years ago. Or perhaps 400,000 years ago.

http://articles.latimes.com/1997-06-13/news/mn-3021_1_dog-breeds

“The physical evidence of fossilized bones and skulls suggests that dogs as they are known today first appeared about 14,000 years ago. Domestic cats appeared as recently as 7,000 years ago. Most modern dog breeds are at most a few centuries old.”

Whatever the age of the partnership, I’d suspect that some bright and far thinking wolves decided to earn the rewards of domestication and this agreement lasted through the hunter/gatherers phase before bteeds changed to benefit their Neolithic partners.

Yes, my dog is smarter than I am.

From the LA Times article:

The scientists were surprised by the enormous diversity of the genetic sequences they found in dogs--far more than could have evolved in a mere 14,000 years, Wayne said.

Based on differing estimates of how quickly those mutations could accumulate, the researchers concluded that dogs could have originated as long as 135,000 years ago or as recently as 60,000 years ago.

Yet, as the above articles states, most modern breeds are less than 200 years old. Then there was the Russian scientist who domesticated foxes within just a few generations.

There's no logic to domesticated dogs prior to the last ice age, otherwise we'd see dogs coming out of Africa much earlier, and there was no environmental trigger for it, anyway. Too often these DNA analysis are more about getting published than real science.