A 9,400-year-old dog skull fragment was found near human remains last week, which researchers say is proof that humans had domestic dogs nearly 10,000 years ago.
University of Maine student Samuel Belknap said that the bone fragment, which was found in human waste, provides evidence that this is the oldest identifiable domestic dog in the Americas.
"This is an important scientific discovery that can tell us not only a lot about the genetic history of dogs but of the interactions between humans and dogs in the past," said Belknap, who is working under Kristin Sobolik in the university's Department of Anthropology and Climate Change Institute, in a statement.
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