Research suggests hunter-gatherers were feeding dogs and giving them ritual burials as early as the last ice age ...

A small fragment of bone, tucked away in a museum drawer for decades, has quietly shifted what is known about the long relationship between humans and.

Two new papers have shown that dogs were fully distinct from wolves—and companions with people—more than 14,000 years ago.

Scientists have confirmed using full genome analysis that dogs were already living as human companions over 14,000 years ago.

One dog, known from bones found at the Pinarbasi rock shelter site in Turkey used by ancient human hunter-gatherers, is about ...

A jawbone found in a Somerset cave rewrites the story of when and how dogs became our best friends.

According to researchers, modern dog genetic lineages must have been established by the Upper Palaeolithic, the final phase of the Old Stone Age, between 50,000 and 10,000 BP (Before Present). During ...

New research pushes the first genetic evidence of dogs back by 5,000 years and suggests that hunter-gatherer groups may have ...

Some bones indicate that the hunter-gatherers of the time fed dogs fish. Their remains were also treated in similar ways to ...

The close relationship between humans and dogs has been ongoing for more than 14,000 years, a new study has discovered.