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raman_klogius@ani.social 1 month ago
People domesticate dogs before they domesticate horses.
When people come to settle all corners of Earth – the remote Pacific islands, the tundra, across the Bering Strait and the entire Americas – they brought dogs with them, not horses.
When people of the steppes first encounter horses, their hunting dogs were alongside them.
When people first encounter horses on the steppes, their hunting dogs were alongside them.
Depends on what you mean by people, homo erectus left africa and probably encountered and hunted horses long before we domesticated dogs. Same with neanderthals and other close relatives of humans. They definitely would’ve been by our side when we first started domesticating them though.
gnutrino@programming.dev 1 month ago
By like 20,000 years or so too, I dont think people realize how long we’ve been domesticating dog
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 month ago
More like 130,000 years. We have found dog burials alongside their humans that are 150,000 years old. Makes sense that the only species that has a hope of keeping up with us on long distance treks was the one we immediately domesticated.
gnutrino@programming.dev 1 month ago
Do you have a source for this as the only sources I can find (e.g.) suggest that’s an order of magnitude out