Sunday 1 June 2014

Domestication of dogs may explain mammoth kill sites and success of early modern humans

Date:
May 29, 2014

Source:
Penn State

Summary:
A new analysis of European archaeological sites containing large numbers of dead mammoths and dwellings built with mammoth bones has led to a new interpretation of these sites -- that their abrupt appearance may have been due to early modern humans working with the earliest domesticated dogs to kill the now-extinct mammoth.


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