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Mutton, an Indigenous woolly dog, died in 1859 − analysis confirms precolonial lineage of this extinct breed, once kept for their wool

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By Audrey Lin, Chris Stantis, Logan Kistler
| Yahoo Verified
Indigenous Coast Salish women wove woolly dogs' fur into blankets. Artist's reconstruction by Karen Carr Audrey T. Lin, Smithsonian Institution; Chris Stantis, University of Utah, and Logan Kistler, Smithsonian Institution Sat, May 30, 2026 at 2:20 PM UTC 8 min read Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dogs have been in the Americas for more than 10,000 years. They were already domesticated when they came from Eurasia with the first people to reach North America.
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Mutton, an Indigenous woolly dog, died in 1859 − analysis confirms precolonial lineage of this extinct breed, once kept for their wool

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By Audrey Lin, Chris Stantis
| Conway Daily Sun Verified
Dogs have been in the Americas for more than 10,000 years. They were already domesticated when they came from Eurasia with the first people to reach North America. In the coastal parts of present-day Washington state and southwestern British Columbia, archaeologists have found dog remains dating back as far as about 5,000 years ago.
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Dogs were widely distributed across western Eurasia during the Palaeolithic

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By William Marsh, Lachie Scarsbrook, Eren Yüncü, Lizzie Hodgson, Audrey Lin, Maria De Iorio, Olaf Thalmann, Mark Thomas Verified, Mahaut Goor, Anders Bergström, Angela Noseda, Sarieh Amiri, Fereidoun Biglari, Dušan Borić, Katia Bougiouri, Alberto Carmagnini, Maddalena Giannì, Tom Higham, Ophélie Lebrasseur, Anna Linderholm, Marcello A. Mannino, Caroline Middleton, Gökhan Mustafaoğlu, Angela Perri, Joris Peters, Mike Richards, Özlem Sarıtaş, Pontus Skoglund, Rhiannon Stevens, Chris Stringer, Kristina Tabbada, Helen M. Talbot, Laura G. Van der Sluis, Silvia M. Bello, Vesna Dimitrijevic, Louise Martin, Marjan Mashkour, Simon A. Parfitt, Sonja Vukovic, Selina Brace, Oliver E. Craig, Douglas Baird, Sophy Charlton, Greger Larson, Ian Barnes, Laurent A. F. Frantz
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Abstract Archaeological evidence suggests that dogs diverged from wolves during the Palaeolithic, more than 15,000 years ago1,2,3,4,5,6,7. The earliest unequivocal genetic evidence, however, is associated with dog remains from Mesolithic archaeological contexts approximately 10,900 years ago8,9.
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