As recently as 110 years ago, Aboriginal Australian hunters enlisted help from an unlikely source. They used dingoes, difficult-to-train canines halfway between wolves and dogs, to help trap and kill kangaroos and emus. This might provide us with new insights into how and why humans domesticated dogs thousands of years ago. Image: esia_one
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Over the past 30,000 years or so, humans have domesticated all manner of species for food, hunting, transport, materials, to control pests and to keep as pets. But some say that before we domesticated any of them, we first had to domesticate ourselves. Image: Jerzy Kijewski
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Even in the Stone Age, humans may have loved their dogs. A reanalysis of a prehistoric dog that was buried with two humans reveals that the animal had experienced several bouts of potentially lethal illness. The fact it survived suggests its owners cared for their dog as a pet. Image: Mark Beery Photography
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European hunter-gatherers were the first to bring dogs to heel, perhaps as early as 32,000 years ago. Mitochondrial DNA extracted from the bones of 18 prehistoric canids from Eurasia, the US and Argentina have helped track down the continent on which wolves became dogs. Image: candybmw
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