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Dogs Were Already ‘Man’s Best Friend’ at Least 12,000 Years Ago in the Americas

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Indigenous people in the Americas began forming close relationships with the ancestors of today ’s dogs around 2,000 years earlier than previously recorded on the continent.

Researchers unearthed a tibia , or lower-leg bone, of an adult canine in 2018 at a longstanding archaeological site called Swan Point , about 70 miles south east of Fairbanks.

Radiocarbon dating showed that the canine was alive about 12,000-years ago , near the end of the Ice Age .