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Man's Best Friend - 15,000 Years Ago In Britain

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This article offers a more heart-warming excursion as opposed to some of the other news topics at the moment.

"A fragment of a [dog] jawbone found deep underground in a cave in Somerset has rewritten the story of when and how dogs became our best friends."

www.bbc.co.uk/.../cn0ky1n791go

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  • in reply to Geeky Gothic Guy

    Sounds like this note might be more of your interest:

    Earliest evidence of a domestic cat: a 9,500-year-old Neolithic burial in Cyprus shows a human and a cat intentionally buried together, suggesting companionship or domestication

    pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/.../

    Driscoll CA, Clutton-Brock J, Kitchener AC, O'Brien SJ. The Taming of the cat. Genetic and archaeological findings hint that wildcats became housecats earlier--and in a different place--than previously thought. Sci Am. 2009 Jun;300(6):68-75. PMID: 19485091; PMCID: PMC5790555.