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SUMMARY:Chasing the Earliest Dogs  - Prof. Greger Larson (University of Ox
 ford)
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260310T153000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Archaeological evidence suggests that dogs diverged from wolve
 s during the Palaeolithic >15\,000 years ago. The earliest unequivocal gen
 etic evidence\, however\, is associated with dog remains from Mesolithic a
 rcheological contexts (~10\,900 years ago). To test\n for evidence of dogs
  in the Palaeolithic\, we generated both nuclear and mitochondrial genomes
  from canid remains at Pınarbaşı (Türkiye) and Gough’s Cave (UK) dir
 ectly dated to between 15\,800 and 14\,300 years ago. We also generated ge
 nomic data from dogs excavated\n from two Mesolithic contexts in Serbia (P
 adina and Vlasac). Combined\, our genetic analysis demonstrates that dogs 
 were widely distributed across West Eurasia during the Late Upper Palaeoli
 thic (~14\,300 years ago)\, and may have spread alongside the expansion\n 
 of human ancestry associated with the Epigravettian culture (16\,000–13\
 ,000 years ago). Even more interestingly\, these dogs\, were genetically a
  great deal more similar than expected given the ~3\,500km geographic dist
 ance between them and statistically\, they\n were more anomalous than both
  Tiger Woods and Lionel Messi. I’ll present the latest insights related 
 to the origins and dispersal of dogs and the degree of correlation between
  human and dog movements across Eurasia\, the Americas and Oceania.\nSpeak
 ers:\nProf. Greger Larson (University of Oxford)
LOCATION:Seminar Rooms 7&8 
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URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/43d867e2-bd85-4378-bf08-c51d47e0f7f4/
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