A 33,000-Year-Old incipient dog from the Altai Mountains of Siberia: Evidence of the earliest domestication disrupted by the last Glacial Maximum

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Ovodov, Nikolai D ^a   Crockford, Susan J ^b   Kuzmin, Yaroslav V ^c   Higham, Thomas F G ^d   Hodgins, Gregory W L ^e   van der Plicht, Johannes ^f,g  

^a INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY   (Russian Federation)

^b Pacific Identifications Inc   (Canada)

^c SOBOLEV INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY   (Russian Federation)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^g LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANIDAE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; DOMESTICATION; GREENLAND; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MANDIBLE; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NONHUMAN; PREHISTORIC PERIOD; RADIOMETRIC DATING; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SKULL; TOOTH; WILD SPECIES; WOLF; ANIMAL; ARCHEOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; HISTORY; ICE COVER; MASS SPECTROMETRY;

CANIDAE; CANIS FAMILIARIS;

CARBON;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; ARCHAEOLOGY; CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; DOGS; HISTORY, ANCIENT; ICE COVER; MASS SPECTROMETRY; RADIOMETRIC DATING; SIBERIA;

EID: 79960863619     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0022821     Document Type: Article

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