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A 33,000-Year-Old Incipient Dog from the Altai Mountains of Siberia: Evidence of the Earliest Domestication Disrupted by the Last Glacial Maximum

Nikolai D. Ovodov,

Affiliation Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Novosibirsk, Russia
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Susan J. Crockford,

Affiliation Pacific Identifications Inc., Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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Yaroslav V. Kuzmin ,

* E-mail: kuzmin@fulbrightmail.org

Affiliation Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, Novosibirsk, Russia
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Thomas F. G. Higham,

Affiliation Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Gregory W. L. Hodgins,

Affiliation National Science Foundation-Arizona Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
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Johannes van der Plicht

Affiliations Center for Isotope Research, Groningen University, Groningen, The Netherlands, Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
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A 33,000-Year-Old Incipient Dog from the Altai Mountains of Siberia: Evidence of the Earliest Domestication Disrupted by the Last Glacial Maximum

Nikolai D. Ovodov,
Susan J. Crockford,
Yaroslav V. Kuzmin,
Thomas F. G. Higham,
Gregory W. L. Hodgins,
Johannes van der Plicht

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Published: July 28, 2011
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0022821

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