Oldest New World dog found in human poop

Samuel Belknap III, a graduate student at the University of Maine doing research for his thesis on

ancient diets, in southwestern Texas, has found fragments of China wholesaleof the oldest known domesticated dog in the Americas. The fragments were found in a

sample of ancient human feces intact, indicating that 9,400 years ago people were using dogs not only

as partners, employees and caregivers, but also as food.

Paleofecal sample was discovered in 1970 in Hinds Cave, an archaeological motherlode in a small canyon

of the lower Pecos River, near the border with Mexico. Hunter-gatherers living in the area 9,000 years,

since before 8000 BC and Oldest New World dog found in human poop  China wholesale  until as recently as a

thousand years ago.

Belknap and fellow UMaine graduate student Robert Ingraham first visually identify the bone as a

fragment of right occipital condyle, where the skull articulates with the atlas vertebra of the spine.

Ingraham also visually identify the bones in the University Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard,

which indicates that the fragment of a very similar to a dog's China wholesale  short native of New Mexico.

The bone was sent to the University of Oklahoma researcher Cecil Lewis, who heads the Molecular

Anthropology for Ancient DNA laboratory for DNA analysis. DNA testing lab, along with a 2002 study

genetic archaeological specimens dog, with the support of the conclusion that the SE-20 is a domestic

dog instead of a wolf, coyote or fox, and is species closely related to a China wholesale  dog.

The age of the bones and paleofecal material were dated, confirming they were contemporary and very,

very old. This is an important element, since previous researchers thought they had found bones of

dogs, even large (about 11,000 years) in the Jaguar Cave in China wholesale,but the date on which the archaeological context. When the bones were carbon dated,

which was much more recent, old only 1,000 to 3,000 years.

Judging by the size of the bones (only 1.5 centimeters or half an inch long), Belknap thinks the China wholesale  was quite small, about 25-30 pounds. He thinks it

could have been cut into a stew, which also explains the second bone is found that is too small to

analyze, but may be from the foot of the dog.

According to ethnographic studies, dogs were consumed, whether in times of despair or at times of

celebration. The dogs were killed in a specific manner and may have been cooked in a stew, which could

explain how a skull and bones of the wrist or ankle paleofecal ended in the China wholesale  itself.

"It could be that the smaller bones broke in the process of killing and found its way into a stew or

soup," said Belknap.