dog fossil remains were discovered in the cave Goyet, and apparently would be associated with the Aurignacian culture .
" The most striking differences between these dogs and now is the size of the teeth " he told Discovery, Mietje Germonpré, author of the paper, which was published in Journal of Archaeological Science ( abstract).
" In shape, the Paleolithic dogs were more similar to current Siberian husky, but were larger in size, perhaps similar to the sheepdogs," he added Germonpré, a paleontologist at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences .
Article scientists compare this dog house with 117 other fossils and skulls of dogs today, and even wolves and foxes.
In this comparison might discover that " Paleolithic dogs had a shorter and wider snout and a cap relatively larger brain than other dogs and wolves fossil, "said Germonpré.
The fossil is an analysis of isotopes with which they could know what they fed, and showed that dams such as horses, reindeer and musk oxen, but no fish.
Germonpré has a theory of how it could have initiated the domestication of dogs, and maybe the prehistoric hunters killed a female wolf and her cubs are brought home to care for them. It is known that all the offspring tend to generate tenderness in humans, and perhaps the early hunters of Europe were no exception. According
Germonpré, were grown with more docile and got rid of the wild, bringing in about 10 generations and could see morphological changes. The authors
is possible that dogs were used to track, hunt and transport prey. According
Susan Crockford, an anthropologist and evolutionary biologist at the University of Victoria, Canada, does not believe that ariñaciences had domesticated the wolf to become a dog, but the Wolves had a "self-domestication" from time to time in evolutionary history, which could explain why they appear and disappear from the fossil record. That is why there are more dogs in the archaeological record. Via
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