{"id":1670,"date":"2017-09-18T19:28:21","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T19:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/?p=1670"},"modified":"2017-09-18T19:45:50","modified_gmt":"2017-09-18T19:45:50","slug":"new-findings-may-push-origin-of-dog-breeding-back-thousands-of-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/animal-science\/new-findings-may-push-origin-of-dog-breeding-back-thousands-of-years\/","title":{"rendered":"New Findings May Push Origin of Dog Breeding Back Thousands of Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ask the average Jane or Joe about dog breeding, and their most distant point of reference probably goes back 17 years to the mockumentary film\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0218839\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Best in Show<\/a><\/em>. If they have a friend or relative who breeds dogs, add another 20 years on to that total. And if they&#8217;re history buffs, they might be able to go back to the late Victorian era.<\/p>\n<p>But people have been purposefully breeding dogs for a lot longer than that. Thousands of years, in fact \u2014 and new findings are pointing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2017\/05\/earliest-evidence-dog-breeding-found-remote-siberian-island\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">all the way back to the hunter-gatherers of Zhokhov Island\u00a09,000 years ago<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 20px; font-size: 11.5px;\"><em>Now it appears these ancient Arctic dwellers did something even more remarkable: They may have been among the first humans to breed dogs for a particular purpose. An analysis of canine bones from Zhokhov suggests the dogs there were bred to pull sleds, making this the first evidence\u2014by thousands of years\u2014for dog breeding in the archaeological record.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1671\" src=\"http:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/SledDogs-300x222.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/SledDogs-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/SledDogs-768x568.jpg 768w, https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/SledDogs.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As these findings indicate, the length and depth of the human-dog bond is truly astounding.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1347\" src=\"http:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/naiaLogo-300x155.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/naiaLogo-300x155.jpg 300w, https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/naiaLogo-768x397.jpg 768w, https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/naiaLogo-1024x530.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ask the average Jane or Joe about dog breeding, and their most distant point of reference probably goes 17 years ago to the mockumentary\u00a0Best in Show&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1670"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1675,"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670\/revisions\/1675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}