Can ancient stories shed light on when dogs were first domesticated? StanleyCoren investigates.
DNA and paleontological studies have not unequivocally established where and when dogs were first domesticated.
Dogs were first domesticated in Asia, then dispersed through Europe, the Americas, and finally to Australia and Africa.Over the span of my life, I have collected many folktales and myths about dogs because I felt that they were not only entertaining, but they had psychological value. From folktales, we learn about the emotions and feelings that people have concerning dogs. These stories often reflect our beliefs about the behavior,, and social nature of dogs.
The truly clever aspect of this research is that d'Huy next used a set of statistical tools typically used by biologists and geneticists to create family trees showing the relationships among species and the evolutionary sequence of events.
The usefulness of stories as bits of historical data is confirmed by the fact that these folktales often coincide with cultural practices. I mentioned earlier that one of the more popular and widespread canine mythological motifs is that dogs are guides that take worthy people into the afterlife. This is consistent with certain archaeological finds such as a 14,000-year-old grave in Germany which contained a man, a woman, and two dogs.
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