Humans were travelling with dogs 10,000 years ago, a new study finds

By Aarjavee Raaj – CTV News

A new study has found that humans from around 10,000 years ago took dogs along with them on their travels across the world.

The study, published in the journal Science, found that dogs have been an integral part of human cultures for thousands of years.

Researchers from an international team led by Laurent Frantz, a paleogeneticist at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and Queen Mary University of London, looked at 73 ancient dog genomes. They included 17 newly sequenced samples from species in Siberia, East Asia, the Central Asian Steppe and China, according to the study.