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Earliest pet dogs in the Americas may have lived at Alaska site

Researchers point to a 13,800-year-old site in Alaska as a possible home of the earliest pet dogs in the Americas; the evidence stays maybe.

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  1. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorTalking point number one: scientists say the earliest pet dogs in the Americas may have lived at a thirteen thousand eight hundred year old site in Alaska.

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