Scientists have determined that the most ancient domestic dog of Asia, as known up to date, lived about 34 thousand years ago in Altai, as the Center of public relations of Siberian section of RAN announced. The conclusions of Siberian scientists were published on Thursday in the scientific journal PLoS ONE.
This dog skull was found in Bandits' Cave in Ust-Kansk district of republic Altai back in early 1970's.
At that time scientists concluded that the find is about 18 thousand years old.
In 2008 scientists requested their American colleagues at University of Arizona to perform a mass-spectrometer dating of a bone fragment from the skull; the lab established that the remains are about 34 thousand years old.
RIA-Novosti. Translated by Heda Jindrak
