The domestic dog that lived ∼17,000 years ago in the Lower Magdalenian of Erralla site (Basque Country): A radiometric and genetic analysis

Hervella, Montserrat; San-Juan-Nó, Asier; Aldasoro-Zabala, Aloña; Mariezkurrena, Koro; Altuna, Jesús; de-la-Rúa, Concepción

doi:10.1016/j.jasrep.2022.103706

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“…As we have known for some time, in specialised hunting, modern humans were helped by the first dogs; wolves that were accustomed to living with humans until they began to collaborate with them. A recent study has assessed the ascription of a specimen at Erralla to a domestic breed (Hervella and others, 2022). This assistance, together with improvements in the hunters' equipment, increased hunting parties' possibilities of success.…”

Section: Human Resilience and Use Of The Resources In The Environmentmentioning

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Upper Palaeolithic hunter–gatherer societies in the Basque Country (Iberian Peninsula) in the light of palaeoenvironmental dynamics in the last Glacial Period: cultural adaptations and the use of biotic resources

Iriarte-Chiapusso,

Ayerdi,

Garcia-Ibaibarriaga

et al. 2023

Ann. Glaciol.

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Upper Palaeolithic archaeological sites in the Basque Country have been excavated for over a century. They have yielded a rich palaeoenvironmental record with zoological and botanical remains that have been obtained in stratigraphic series dated precisely by radiocarbon. This information reveals cyclical environmental changes from climates similar to today to drier and extremely cold conditions, when species in current boreal biomes and others now extinct but with similar ecological preferences were present in the region. Moreover, the archaeological sites have provided high-resolution information about the resilience mechanisms of the communities of our own human species. This information allows us to increase the corpus of palaeoclimate data regarding the Marine Isotopic Stage (MIS) 2 and MIS 3 for a critical region within the human population of Eurasia. The aim of this paper is to show how an extraordinary capacity for adaptation to drastic climate changes Upper Palaeolithic hunter–gatherer societies displayed, even though their subsistence depended on biotic resources that alter rapidly.

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Section: Human Resilience and Use Of The Resources In The Environmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Upper Palaeolithic hunter–gatherer societies in the Basque Country (Iberian Peninsula) in the light of palaeoenvironmental dynamics in the last Glacial Period: cultural adaptations and the use of biotic resources

Iriarte-Chiapusso,

Ayerdi,

Garcia-Ibaibarriaga

et al. 2023

Ann. Glaciol.

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“…Genetic evidence suggests that dogs probably descend from one or possibly a few now-extinct Eurasian wolf populations ( Thalmann et al, 2013 ; Freedman et al, 2014 ; Frantz et al, 2016 ; Bergström et al, 2020 ; Gojobori et al, 2021 ; Bergström et al, 2022 ), although with behavior comparable to that of extant gray wolves ( C. lupus ) ( Mech and Janssens, 2022 ). The first widely accepted skeletal remains of C. familiaris are from Magdalenian sites in Spain, Germany and Switzerland, and date to around 17,000–14,000 years ago (ka) ( Nobis, 1986 ; Napierala and Uerpmann, 2012 ; Street et al, 2015 ; Hervella et al, 2022 ). On the basis of this evidence it is broadly agreed that, prior to this time, a non-sedentary population of hunter-gatherers had entered into a domestic relationship with wolves in some part of the Eurasian landmass (including eastern Asia) ( Perri, 2016 ; Perri et al, 2021 ; Bergström et al, 2022 ).…”

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The human-initiated model of wolf domestication – An expansion based on human-dingo relations in Aboriginal Australia

2023

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The historically known relationship of interspecies companionship between Aboriginal foraging communities in Australia and free-ranging dingoes provides a model for understanding the human-canid relations that gave rise to the first domesticated dogs. Here, we propose that a broadly similar relationship might have developed early in time between wild-living wolves and mobile groups of foragers in Late Pleistocene Eurasia, with hunter-gatherers routinely raiding wild wolf dens for pre-weaned pups, which were socialized to humans and kept in camp as tamed companions (“pets”). We outline a model in which captive wolf pups that reverted to the wild to breed when they were sexually mature established their territories in the vicinity of foraging communities — in a “liminal” ecological zone between humans and truly wild-living wolves. Many (or most) of the wolf pups humans took from the wilderness to rear in camp may have derived from these liminal dens where the breeding pairs had been under indirect human selection for tameness over many generations. This highlights the importance of the large seasonal hunting/aggregation camps associated with mammoth kill-sites in Gravettian/Epigravettian central Europe. Large numbers of foragers gathered regularly at these locations during the wild wolf birthing season. We infer that if a pattern of this kind occurred over long periods of time then there might have been a pronounced effect on genetic variation in free-ranging wolves that denned and whelped in the liminal zones in the vicinity of these human seasonal aggregation sites. The argument is not that wolves were domesticated in central Europe. Rather, it is this pattern of hunter-gatherers who caught and reared wild wolf pups gathering seasonally in large numbers that might have been the catalyst for the early changes leading to the first domesticated dogs — whether in western Eurasia or further afield.

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Seasonality of Human Occupations in El Mirón Cave: Late Upper Paleolithic Hunter-Gatherer Settlement-Subsistence Systems in Cantabrian Spain

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The domestic dog that lived ∼17,000 years ago in the Lower Magdalenian of Erralla site (Basque Country): A radiometric and genetic analysis

Cited by 6 publications

References 60 publications

Upper Palaeolithic hunter–gatherer societies in the Basque Country (Iberian Peninsula) in the light of palaeoenvironmental dynamics in the last Glacial Period: cultural adaptations and the use of biotic resources

Upper Palaeolithic hunter–gatherer societies in the Basque Country (Iberian Peninsula) in the light of palaeoenvironmental dynamics in the last Glacial Period: cultural adaptations and the use of biotic resources

The human-initiated model of wolf domestication – An expansion based on human-dingo relations in Aboriginal Australia

Seasonality of Human Occupations in El Mirón Cave: Late Upper Paleolithic Hunter-Gatherer Settlement-Subsistence Systems in Cantabrian Spain

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