14,000 years ago, at the end of the last Ice Age, a group of hunter-gatherers in Germany nursed a seriously ill puppy for weeks before it died — and when it did, they buried it in the same grave as two of their own, the oldest verified evidence of a bond between humans and dogs

The oldest verified evidence of the emotional bond between humans and dogs is the small skeleton of a puppy that would have died in a matter of days if the Ice Age hunter-gatherers who buried it had not spent approximately six weeks nursing it back to health. The specific evidence for the nursing care, extracted [...] The post 14,000 years ago, at the end of the last Ice Age, a group of hunter-gatherers in Germany nursed a seriously ill puppy for weeks before it died — and when it did, they buried it in the same grave as two of their own, the oldest verified evidence of a bond between humans and dogs appeared first on Space Daily .
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