What is the oldest domesticated dog known so far?
The oldest convincing case is Bonn-Oberkassel, in Germany, about 14,000 years old. Not only was the dog buried, it was part of a human double grave. What is the oldest dog found in the New World? Did dogs come with the first inhabitants of North America? It’s from Danger Cave, in Utah, between 9,000 and 10,000 years old. They came early, but it’s not clear it was with the absolutely first people. Geographically, where do you find ancient dog burials? Dog burials are documented from every major land mass in the world, except Antarctica. What research have you done on dogs in the Arctic? I spent the 1990-1991 academic year as a guest researcher at the University of Copenhagen Zoological Museum, in Denmark, studying Arctic dogs from Greenland, where I’ve also done some fieldwork. With a Danish colleague, I published one paper on the earliest dogs there, some 4,500 years old at most. I’m working on aspects of the later dogs in the Arctic now. What do dog burials tell us about ancient human
