A new study has added a crucial clue in the form of a 12,000-year-old leg bone from the Swan Point archaeological site in ...

A 12,000-year-old canine leg bone unearthed at the Swan Point archaeological site in Alaska has provided new insights into the early relationship between humans and wolves. The analysis of this ...

New archaeological evidence indicates humans in the Americas may have had domesticated canines that depended on them for food ...

Bones from the turn of the Holocene indicate that humans were feeding canines—including wolves and coyotes—fish over 10,000 years ago, ...

“It may not be what we think of as domestication in the Western sense,” said Joshua Reuther, an archaeologist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and an author of the new study, published ...

Researchers unearthed the jawbone at a site called Hollembaek Hill in interior Alaska. Joshua Reuther Still, not everyone is convinced that a diet high in salmon means these canines had ...

(Courtesy of Joshua Reuther) The researchers used multiple scientific techniques in this study. First, they examined the physical characteristics of the bones – their size, shape, and features – much ...

And that’s a relationship that we kind of want to get at,” said Joshua Reuther, an archaeologist with the University of Alaska Museum of the North and one of the authors of the paper.

Researchers unearthed the jawbone at a site called Hollembaek Hill, south of Delta Junction, a region where archaeologists have long done research in partnership with local tribes. This visual may ...