Dr. Selina Brace

I really want it to be a necklace.

I really want it to be a necklace.

Yeah, so it's not just revealing information about the dogs, but it's also revealing about people as well.

I mean, yes, so it pushes back this earliest genetic evidence for domesticated dog by more than 5,000 years, as we mentioned.

But it is really intriguing, this aspect of these different people, these different cultures who had dogs.

So Williams mentioned that we have these different groups.

We have these Magdalenian people, these Magdalenian culture groups,

at Goff's Cave, and then we have the Epigravetian culture, a different group of people at Pinnabashi Cave in Turkey.

We have these different groups.

We have these culturally different people, the Magdalenians at Goff's Cave, and then we have the Anatolian hunter-gatherers at the Pinnabashi Cave in Turkey.

So these two culturally different groups are culturally different.

They have different burial practices.

They have some different diets.

We've said we have the fish diet evidence at the cave, whereas we have a more faunal diet evidence from Gough's cave.

But they're also genetically distinct.

These people actually genetically look different and both and culturally look different.

And yet they both have dogs.

And then when we look at the genetics of these dogs, these dogs are actually pretty similar genetically to each other.

So what this would seem to show is that even though these people aren't exchanging, they're not interbreeding, they're not exchanging cultural goods and ideas.

they are exchanging these dogs, or these dogs are moving between them, or there is the connection between the dogs.