Oldest dwelling in the Western Hemisphere found at 13,800-year-old…

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorArchaeologists have found an ancient base camp in Alaska with evidence of the oldest dwelling in the Americas, and possibly the earliest domesticated dogs, Live Science reports.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSo they're saying the first house and possibly the first dog in the hemisphere, same era. That's a package deal.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThe dogs are only possible, so we say possibly. But we are giving the award anyway, and I have a speech.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentA speech. Of course you do.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorLadies and gentlemen, our Pet of the Day: Possibly the First Good Boy of the Americas.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentStat line: thirteen thousand eight hundred years of experience, one house, zero couches, and a perfect record of waiting by the door.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorZero couches?

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentCouches came later, Vera. The dog was still in the founding era, which is why it sat on the floor and judged everybody.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThe best part is that someone built a home and then, apparently, shared it with a dog.

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    Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorI am tearing up, and I will not apologize.

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    Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThirteen thousand years later, and it's still the dog who gets the good spot by the door.