Ancient Humans Introduced Wolves to Remote Baltic Sea Island 5,000 Years Ago
From Sci.News:
Wolves, the wild ancestor of dogs, are the only large carnivores that have undergone domestication by humans. Yet, it remains unclear if this process took place via direct and deliberate human control of wild wolves or if wolf populations gradually adapted to the human niche. Now, archaeologists have unearthed the remains of two canid individuals with gray wolf genetic ancestry in the Stora Förvar cave on the Swedish island of Stora Karlsö in the Baltic Sea. This island is small (2.5 km2) and, like the neighboring island of Gotland, carries no endemic populations of land mammals, meaning that any such animals must have been brought there by people.
