Ep. 466: Direwolves and Ancient Hunting Dogs
The MeatEater Podcast
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The Rise of Hunting Dogs in Japan
The rise of hunting dogs in our kind of archaeological passes is most likely tied to the beginning of the Holocene period somewhere between 10 and 12,000 years ago. The animals move from these huge megafauna you know mammoth and mastodons that we see out on an open plane to like super fast whitetail deer and boar who are moving through a dark dense forest. I think that you're also starting to see that that they've had that your people are living in an encountering animals that have had more experience with humans right yeah.
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