[Varda]

I guess they're claiming that the mtDNA shows that Dingoes have been differentiated from other SE Asian dogs only 5000 years. This is simply a refinement of the 1997 mtDNA study.

I disagree with the idea that dogs were brought as food. The earliest evidence for dogs in Australia are from purposeful burials complete with red ochre. I doubt that a people that treated dogs this way in death used them as food.

[blam]

"I doubt that a people that treated dogs this way in death used them as food."

I agree.

I've read reports that the Neanderthals hunted in partnership with wild/semi-wild dogs and shared the catch.