Really old dog, new tricks findings?
I’m looking forward to the findings from this excavation at the Lima Zoo in Peru. 1000-year-old dogs were buried with humans (126 humans and 128 dogs) and they were discovered beneath the zoo. There appears to be a variety of breeds. One interesting thing that I learned is that some pre-Columbian Peruvian cultures believed that dogs escorted humans to the afterlife.
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http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/08/why-are-these-1000-year-old-dogs-buried-under-lima-zoo