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Dog’s paw print preserved on Bronze Age mud brick

Archaeologists at Tavsanli Hoyuk in western Turkey have uncovered a 4,000-year-old canine paw print on a mud brick amid the rubble of a Bronze Age house.

A dog’s paw print, left around 4,000 years ago, has been discovered on a mud brick at Tavsanli Hoyuk, an archaeological site in western Turkey. Archaeologists uncovered the brick amid the rubble of a Bronze Age house.

The impression preserves a trace of the animal on material used for construction. It also belongs to a much longer history of close relationships between humans and dogs in the region, extending back thousands of years.

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