Palaeolithic dogs and Pleistocene wolves revisited: a reply to Morey (2014)
This is a reply to the comments of Morey (2014) on our identification of Palaeolithic dogs from several European Palaeolithic sites. In his comments Morey (2014) presents some misrepresentations and misunderstandings that we remedy here. In contrast to what Morey (2014) propounds, our results suggest that the domestication of the wolf was a long process that started early in the Upper Palaeolithic and that since that time two sympatric canid morphotypes can be seen in Eurasian sites: Pleistocene wolves and Palaeolithic dogs. Contrary to Morey (2014), we are convinced that the study of this domestication process should be multidisciplinary.
Molecular phylogeny of the extinct giant deer, Megaloceros giganteus.
a Centre de Genetique Moleculaire et Cellulaire (CGMC), CNRS UMR 5534, Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, France b Laboratoire d’Anthropologie des Populations du Passe, CNRS UMR 5199 PACEA, Universite Bordeaux 1, Talence, France c UCD School of Biology and Environmental Science, UCD, BelWeld, Dublin 4, Ireland d Laboratoire d’Ecologie des Hydrosystemes Fluviaux, CNRS UMR 5023, Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, France e Biogeosciences-Dijon, CNRS UMR 5561, Universite de Bourgogne, Centre des Sciences de la Terre, Dijon, France f Department of Palaeontology, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, Belgium g Department of Biology, University College Lo…
Tracking Five Millennia of Horse Management with Extensive Ancient Genome Time Series
Summary Horse domestication revolutionized warfare and accelerated travel, trade, and the geographic expansion of languages. Here, we present the largest DNA time series for a non-human organism to date, including genome-scale data from 149 ancient animals and 129 ancient genomes (≥1-fold coverage), 87 of which are new. This extensive dataset allows us to assess the modern legacy of past equestrian civilizations. We find that two extinct horse lineages existed during early domestication, one at the far western (Iberia) and the other at the far eastern range (Siberia) of Eurasia. None of these contributed significantly to modern diversity. We show that the influence of Persian-related horse …
Palaeolithic dogs and the early domestication of the wolf: a reply to the comments of Crockford and Kuzmin (2012)
This is a response to the comments of Crockford and Kuzmin (2012) on our identification of Palaeolithic dogs from different European Palaeolithic sites. In their comments Crockford and Kuzmin (2012) present some errors, misunderstandings and misrepresentations that we remedy here. In our opinion, the early wolf domestication must be regarded as an intimate relationship between humans and canids including the breeding of the latter by prehistoric people, resulting in the European Palaeolithic dogs.