Specialized sledge dogs accompanied Inuit dispersal across the North American Arctic.
Domestic dogs have been central to life in the North American Arctic for millennia. The ancestors of the Inuit were the first to introduce the widespread usage of dog sledge transportation technology to the Americas, but whether the Inuit adopted local Palaeo-Inuit dogs or introduced a new dog popul...
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Domestic dogs have been central to life in the North American Arctic for millennia. The ancestors of the Inuit were the first to introduce the widespread usage of dog sledge transportation technology to the Americas, but whether the Inuit adopted local Palaeo-Inuit dogs or introduced a new dog population to the region remains unknown. To test these hypotheses, we generated mitochondrial DNA and geometric morphometric data of skull and dental elements from a total of 922 North American Arctic dogs and wolves spanning over 4500 years. Our analyses revealed that dogs from Inuit sites dating from 2000 BP possess morphological and genetic signatures that distinguish them from earlier Palaeo-Inuit dogs, and identified a novel mitochondrial clade in eastern Siberia and Alaska. The genetic legacy of these Inuit dogs survives today in modern Arctic sledge dogs despite phenotypic differences between archaeological and modern Arctic dogs. Together, our data reveal that Inuit dogs derive from a secondary pre-contact migration of dogs distinct from Palaeo-Inuit dogs, and probably aided the Inuit expansion across the North American Arctic beginning around 1000 BP. |
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Ameen, Carly Feuerborn, Tatiana R Brown, Sarah K Linderholm, Anna Hulme-Beaman, Ardern Lebrasseur, Ophélie Sinding, Mikkel-Holger S Lounsberry, Zachary T Lin, Audrey T Appelt, Martin Bachmann, Lutz Betts, Matthew Britton, Kate Darwent, John Dietz, Rune Fredholm, Merete Gopalakrishnan, Shyam Goriunova, Olga I Grønnow, Bjarne Haile, James Hallsson, Jón Hallsteinn Harrison, Ramona Heide-Jørgensen, Mads Peter Knecht, Rick Losey, Robert J Masson-MacLean, Edouard McGovern, Thomas H McManus-Fry, Ellen Meldgaard, Morten Midtdal, Åslaug Moss, Madonna L Nikitin, Iurii G Nomokonova, Tatiana Pálsdóttir, Albína Hulda Perri, Angela Popov, Aleksandr N Rankin, Lisa Reuther, Joshua D Sablin, Mikhail Schmidt, Anne Lisbeth Shirar, Scott Smiarowski, Konrad Sonne, Christian Stiner, Mary C Vasyukov, Mitya West, Catherine F Ween, Gro Birgit Wennerberg, Sanne Eline Wiig, Øystein Woollett, James |
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Ameen, Carly Feuerborn, Tatiana R Brown, Sarah K Linderholm, Anna Hulme-Beaman, Ardern Lebrasseur, Ophélie Sinding, Mikkel-Holger S Lounsberry, Zachary T Lin, Audrey T Appelt, Martin Bachmann, Lutz Betts, Matthew Britton, Kate Darwent, John Dietz, Rune Fredholm, Merete Gopalakrishnan, Shyam Goriunova, Olga I Grønnow, Bjarne Haile, James Hallsson, Jón Hallsteinn Harrison, Ramona Heide-Jørgensen, Mads Peter Knecht, Rick Losey, Robert J Masson-MacLean, Edouard McGovern, Thomas H McManus-Fry, Ellen Meldgaard, Morten Midtdal, Åslaug Moss, Madonna L Nikitin, Iurii G Nomokonova, Tatiana Pálsdóttir, Albína Hulda Perri, Angela Popov, Aleksandr N Rankin, Lisa Reuther, Joshua D Sablin, Mikhail Schmidt, Anne Lisbeth Shirar, Scott Smiarowski, Konrad Sonne, Christian Stiner, Mary C Vasyukov, Mitya West, Catherine F Ween, Gro Birgit Wennerberg, Sanne Eline Wiig, Øystein Woollett, James Specialized sledge dogs accompanied Inuit dispersal across the North American Arctic. |
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Ameen, Carly Feuerborn, Tatiana R Brown, Sarah K Linderholm, Anna Hulme-Beaman, Ardern Lebrasseur, Ophélie Sinding, Mikkel-Holger S Lounsberry, Zachary T Lin, Audrey T Appelt, Martin Bachmann, Lutz Betts, Matthew Britton, Kate Darwent, John Dietz, Rune Fredholm, Merete Gopalakrishnan, Shyam Goriunova, Olga I Grønnow, Bjarne Haile, James Hallsson, Jón Hallsteinn Harrison, Ramona Heide-Jørgensen, Mads Peter Knecht, Rick Losey, Robert J Masson-MacLean, Edouard McGovern, Thomas H McManus-Fry, Ellen Meldgaard, Morten Midtdal, Åslaug Moss, Madonna L Nikitin, Iurii G Nomokonova, Tatiana Pálsdóttir, Albína Hulda Perri, Angela Popov, Aleksandr N Rankin, Lisa Reuther, Joshua D Sablin, Mikhail Schmidt, Anne Lisbeth Shirar, Scott Smiarowski, Konrad Sonne, Christian Stiner, Mary C Vasyukov, Mitya West, Catherine F Ween, Gro Birgit Wennerberg, Sanne Eline Wiig, Øystein Woollett, James |
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Specialized sledge dogs accompanied Inuit dispersal across the North American Arctic. |
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Specialized sledge dogs accompanied Inuit dispersal across the North American Arctic. |
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Specialized sledge dogs accompanied Inuit dispersal across the North American Arctic. |
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Specialized sledge dogs accompanied Inuit dispersal across the North American Arctic. |
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Specialized sledge dogs accompanied Inuit dispersal across the North American Arctic. |
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specialized sledge dogs accompanied inuit dispersal across the north american arctic. |
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Arctic Arctic inuit Alaska Siberia |
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Arctic Arctic inuit Alaska Siberia |
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ftunivliverpool:oai:livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk:3065611 2023-05-15T14:28:12+02:00 Specialized sledge dogs accompanied Inuit dispersal across the North American Arctic. Ameen, Carly Feuerborn, Tatiana R Brown, Sarah K Linderholm, Anna Hulme-Beaman, Ardern Lebrasseur, Ophélie Sinding, Mikkel-Holger S Lounsberry, Zachary T Lin, Audrey T Appelt, Martin Bachmann, Lutz Betts, Matthew Britton, Kate Darwent, John Dietz, Rune Fredholm, Merete Gopalakrishnan, Shyam Goriunova, Olga I Grønnow, Bjarne Haile, James Hallsson, Jón Hallsteinn Harrison, Ramona Heide-Jørgensen, Mads Peter Knecht, Rick Losey, Robert J Masson-MacLean, Edouard McGovern, Thomas H McManus-Fry, Ellen Meldgaard, Morten Midtdal, Åslaug Moss, Madonna L Nikitin, Iurii G Nomokonova, Tatiana Pálsdóttir, Albína Hulda Perri, Angela Popov, Aleksandr N Rankin, Lisa Reuther, Joshua D Sablin, Mikhail Schmidt, Anne Lisbeth Shirar, Scott Smiarowski, Konrad Sonne, Christian Stiner, Mary C Vasyukov, Mitya West, Catherine F Ween, Gro Birgit Wennerberg, Sanne Eline Wiig, Øystein Woollett, James 2019-12 text http://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/3065611/ https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.1929 http://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/3065611/1/rspb.2019.1929.pdf en eng eng The Royal Society http://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/3065611/1/rspb.2019.1929.pdf Collapse authors list. Ameen, Carly, Feuerborn, Tatiana R, Brown, Sarah K, Linderholm, Anna, Hulme-Beaman, Ardern orcid:0000-0001-8130-9648 , Lebrasseur, Ophélie orcid:0000-0003-0687-8538 , Sinding, Mikkel-Holger S, Lounsberry, Zachary T, Lin, Audrey T, Appelt, Martin et al (show 49 more authors) , Bachmann, Lutz, Betts, Matthew, Britton, Kate, Darwent, John, Dietz, Rune, Fredholm, Merete, Gopalakrishnan, Shyam, Goriunova, Olga I, Grønnow, Bjarne, Haile, James, Hallsson, Jón Hallsteinn, Harrison, Ramona, Heide-Jørgensen, Mads Peter, Knecht, Rick, Losey, Robert J, Masson-MacLean, Edouard, McGovern, Thomas H, McManus-Fry, Ellen, Meldgaard, Morten, Midtdal, Åslaug, Moss, Madonna L, Nikitin, Iurii G, Nomokonova, Tatiana, Pálsdóttir, Albína Hulda, Perri, Angela, Popov, Aleksandr N, Rankin, Lisa, Reuther, Joshua D, Sablin, Mikhail, Schmidt, Anne Lisbeth, Shirar, Scott, Smiarowski, Konrad, Sonne, Christian, Stiner, Mary C, Vasyukov, Mitya, West, Catherine F, Ween, Gro Birgit, Wennerberg, Sanne Eline, Wiig, Øystein, Woollett, James, Dalén, Love, Hansen, Anders J, P Gilbert, M Thomas, Sacks, Benjamin N, Frantz, Laurent, Larson, Greger, Dobney, Keith orcid:0000-0001-9036-4681 , Darwent, Christyann M and Evin, Allowen (2019) Specialized sledge dogs accompanied Inuit dispersal across the North American Arctic. Proceedings. Biological sciences, 286 (1916). 20191929-. Article NonPeerReviewed 2019 ftunivliverpool https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.1929 2023-01-19T23:50:01Z Domestic dogs have been central to life in the North American Arctic for millennia. The ancestors of the Inuit were the first to introduce the widespread usage of dog sledge transportation technology to the Americas, but whether the Inuit adopted local Palaeo-Inuit dogs or introduced a new dog population to the region remains unknown. To test these hypotheses, we generated mitochondrial DNA and geometric morphometric data of skull and dental elements from a total of 922 North American Arctic dogs and wolves spanning over 4500 years. Our analyses revealed that dogs from Inuit sites dating from 2000 BP possess morphological and genetic signatures that distinguish them from earlier Palaeo-Inuit dogs, and identified a novel mitochondrial clade in eastern Siberia and Alaska. The genetic legacy of these Inuit dogs survives today in modern Arctic sledge dogs despite phenotypic differences between archaeological and modern Arctic dogs. Together, our data reveal that Inuit dogs derive from a secondary pre-contact migration of dogs distinct from Palaeo-Inuit dogs, and probably aided the Inuit expansion across the North American Arctic beginning around 1000 BP. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic inuit Alaska Siberia The University of Liverpool Repository Arctic Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 286 1916 20191929 |