Dogs were present in the Americas before the arrival of European colonists, but the origin
and fate of these precontact dogs are largely unknown. We sequenced 71 mitochondrial and …

Worldwide, dogs (Canis familiaris) are certainly the most common domesticate (900 million
according to the World Atlas) and are sometimes used as a proxy for human presence. Dogs …

Dogs were commonly buried individually upon death but sometimes jointly interred with
people. The oldest known example of the latter, from Bonn-Oberkassel in Germany, serves …

Dogs' relationship with humans is pervasive and familiar, and human-dog social bonds
serve multiple functions. Yet the breadth and depth of this variation is poorly understood …

The domestication of dogs likely occurred in Eurasia by 16,000 years ago, and the initial
peopling of the Americas potentially happened around the same time. Dogs were long …

Animal remains are a common find in prehistoric and protohistoric funerary contexts. While
taphonomic and osteological data provide insights about the proximate (depositional) …

Findings of canid remains in graves at different sites in the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula
are evidence of a widespread funerary practice that proliferated between the end of the 3rd …

The introduction of the dog in Patagonia is recorded from the Late Holocene. Documents
from the nineteenth century indicate that dogs had various utilitarian roles among hunter …

We present the earliest evidence for domestic cat (Felis catus L., 1758) from Kazakhstan,
found as a well preserved skeleton with extensive osteological pathologies dating to 775 …

Dietary reconstruction via stable isotope analysis is an important part of the study of past
populations, but can raise issues in many parts of the world where human remains are …