Livestock played a role in prehistoric plague infections: Yersinia pestis genome has been discovered in 4,000-year-old sheep tooth at Arkaim
The origin and diversity of Greenland’s ancient sled dogs (or Qimmeq, pl. Qimmit), in a genetic study published in the journal Science
Egyptian donkeys may have been incorporated into ritual burials – while local donkeys were part of the menu – in the Early Bronze Age at Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath, in present-day Israel
In the windswept steppe of northeastern Mongolia, archaeologists have unearthed over 7,000 animal bones, a rare window into daily life along the medieval frontier of the Liao Empire
Cooking for the craft: new study reveals how prehistoric people extracted animal teeth to produce ornaments
Ancient DNA reveals new clues about the incredible journey of dogs in the Americas; they went south not with the first hunter-gatherers, but with mobile farming communities
A study published in PNAS provides evidence that the domestication of pigs from wild boars occurred in South China
Llamas may have been domesticated in the semi-arid North of Chile prior to the Incas, according to multi-proxy analysis of early camelid remains
Poetry from Ancient China tells the story of the decline of the finless porpoise in the Yangtze river, over the past 1,400 years
Atapuerca rewrites the history of Europe’s first inhabitants with the oldest known face in Western Europe: a fossil of Homo affinis erectus from Sima del Elefante
