@article {333508,
	title = {Dogs were widely distributed across western Eurasia during the Palaeolithic},
	journal = {Nature},
	volume = {651},
	year = {2026},
	month = {2026/03/25},
	pages = {995-1003},
	abstract = {<p><meta charset="UTF-8" />Archaeological evidence suggests that dogs diverged from wolves during the Palaeolithic, more than 15,000\&thinsp;years ago. The earliest unequivocal genetic evidence, however, is associated with dog remains from Mesolithic archaeological contexts approximately 10,900\&thinsp;years ago. Here we generate both nuclear and mitochondrial genomes from canid remains at P{\i}narba{\c s}{\i} in T{\"u}rkiye (15,800\&thinsp;years ago)\&nbsp;and Gough\&rsquo;s Cave in the UK (14,300\&thinsp;years ago), as well as from dogs excavated from two Mesolithic sites in Serbia (Padina between 11,500\&ndash;7,900\&thinsp;years ago and Vlasac 8,900\&thinsp;years ago). Our analyses indicate that a genetically homogeneous dog population was already widely distributed across Europe and Anatolia during the Late Upper Palaeolithic (by at least 14,300\&thinsp;years ago). This finding suggests that dogs were exchanged among genetically and culturally distinct western Eurasian Late Palaeolithic human populations, namely the Magdalenian, Epigravettian and Anatolian hunter-gatherers. Last, we identify a major influx of eastern Eurasian dog ancestry during the Mesolithic, concomitant with the movement of eastern hunter-gatherer populations into Europe, which led to the establishment of the primary ancestry characteristics that define European dog populations today.</p>
},
	isbn = {0028-08361476-4687},
	doi = {https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10170-x},
	url = {https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10170-x},
	author = {Marsh, William A. and Scarsbrook, Lachie and Y{\"u}nc{\"u}, Eren and Hodgson, Lizzie and Lin, Audrey T. and De Iorio, Maria and Thalmann, Olaf and Thomas, Mark G. and Goor, Mahaut and Bergstr{\"o}m, Anders and Noseda, Angela and Amiri, Sarieh and Biglari, Fereidoun and Bori{\'c}, Du{\v s}an and Bougiouri, Katia and Carmagnini, Alberto and Gianni, Maddalena and Higham, Tom and Lebrasseur, Oph{\'e}lie and Linderholm, Anna and Mannino, Marcello A. and Middleton, Caroline and Mustafao{\u g}lu, G{\"o}khan and Perri, Angela and Peters, Joris and Richards, Mike and Sar{\i}ta{\c s}, {\"O}zlem and Skoglund, Pontus and Stevens, Rhiannon E. and Stringer, Chris and Tabbada, Kristina and Talbot, Helen M. and van der Sluis, Laura G. and Bello, Silvia M. and Dimitrijevic, Vesna and Martin, Louise and Mashkour, Marjan and Parfitt, Simon A. and Vukovic, Sonja and Brace, Selina and Craig, Oliver E. and Baird, Douglas and Charlton, Sophy and Larson, Greger and Barnes, Ian and Frantz, Laurent A. F.}
}
