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SolomonBlack t1_jbdf8vk wrote

Reply to comment by TK-421wastaken in Humans Started Riding Horses 5,000 Years Ago, New Evidence Suggests by Magister_Xehanort

Science doesn’t care if some clever buggers tamed a wolf or three, it wants to know when the practice was established and dogs were behaviorally and morphologically modified.

Which we would look at remains to see if they showed bones too big or small, do estimates based on genetics, any depictions in art, etc.

And for 5000 years ago that’s really getting into agricultural civilization proper.

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Prime_Cat_Memes t1_jbe7m1r wrote

Göbekli Tepe is 12,000 years old. Science knows what it knows but it doesn't know everything and the consensus about very old things is frequently wrong.

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