Advances in the isolation and sequencing of ancient DNA have begun to reveal the
population histories of both people and dogs. Over the last 10,000 y, the genetic signatures …

The process of canine domestication represents certainly one of the most interesting
questions that evolutionary biology aims to address. A “multiphase” view of this process is …

Dogs are known to be the first species domesticated by humans, although the geographic
and temporal origin of this process is still under debate in different fields of knowledge. In the …

Caves are primary sites for studying human and animal subsistence patterns and genetic
ancestry throughout the Palaeolithic. Iberia served as a critical human and animal refugium …

The biological aspects of infancy within late Upper Palaeolithic populations and the role of
southern refugia at the end of the Last Glacial Maximum are not yet fully understood. This …

Here, we describe a partial cranium of a large canid dated at 406.5±2.4 ka from the Middle
Pleistocene of Ponte Galeria (Rome, Italy). The sample represents one of the few Middle …

Residue analysis in the field of Palaeolithic studies represents a powerful source of
information, as well as a challenging operation of deduction, based on the interpretation of …

Several hypotheses have been proposed to explain the initial steps in the domestication
process of the wolf. We discuss the human-initiated model in which wolf pups were brought …

I develop an understanding of the dingo's relationship with Aboriginal people through a
synthesis of historical, ethnographic, and archaeological literature and Indigenous …

Dog domestication is still largely unresolved due to time-gaps in the sampling of regions.
Ancient Italian canids are particularly understudied, currently represented by only a few …