Specialized sledge dogs accompanied Inuit dispersal across the North American Arctic

  • Carly Ameen
    Department of Archaeology, University of Exeter, Exeter, Devon, UK
  • Tatiana R. Feuerborn
    Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Sarah K. Brown
    Department of Anthropology, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA
  • Anna Linderholm
    Department of Anthropology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA
  • Ardern Hulme-Beaman
    Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, Merseyside, UK
  • Ophélie Lebrasseur
    Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, Merseyside, UK
  • Mikkel-Holger S. Sinding
    Section for Evolutionary Genomics, GLOBE Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Zachary T. Lounsberry
    Mammalian Ecology and Conservation Unit of the Veterinary Genetics Laboratory, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA
  • Audrey T. Lin
    The Palaeogenomics and Bio-archaeology Research Network, Research Laboratory for Archaeology and History of Art, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
  • Martin Appelt
    National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Lutz Bachmann
    Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
  • Matthew Betts
    Canadian Museum of History, Gatineau, Quebec, Canada
  • Kate Britton
    Department of Archaeology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
  • John Darwent
    Department of Anthropology, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA
  • Rune Dietz
    Arctic Research Centre, Aarhus Universitet, Aarhus, Denmark
  • Merete Fredholm
    Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
  • Shyam Gopalakrishnan
    Centre for GeoGenetics, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Olga I. Goriunova
    Laboratory of Archaeology and Paleoecology of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography (Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Science), Irkutsk, Russian Federation
  • Bjarne Grønnow
    National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • James Haile
    The Palaeogenomics and Bio-archaeology Research Network, Research Laboratory for Archaeology and History of Art, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
  • Jón Hallsteinn Hallsson
    Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, The Agricultural University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
  • Ramona Harrison
    Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies, and Religion, University of Bergen, Bergen, Hordaland, Norway
  • Mads Peter Heide-Jørgensen
    Birds and Mammals, Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, Copenhagen K, Denmark
  • Rick Knecht
    Department of Archaeology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
  • Robert J. Losey
    Department of Anthropology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
  • Edouard Masson-MacLean
    Department of Archaeology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
  • Thomas H. McGovern
    Department of Anthropology, Hunter College CUNY, New York, NY, USA
  • Ellen McManus-Fry
    Department of Archaeology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
  • Morten Meldgaard
    Centre for GeoGenetics, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Åslaug Midtdal
    Holmenkollen Ski Museum, Oslo, Norway
  • Madonna L. Moss
    Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA
  • Iurii G. Nikitin
    Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography at the Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography of the Peoples of the Far East (Far Eastern Branch of Russian Academy of Science), Vladivostok, Russian Federation
  • Tatiana Nomokonova
    Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
  • Albína Hulda Pálsdóttir
    Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES) Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
  • Angela Perri
    Department of Archaeology, Durham University, Durham, UK
  • Aleksandr N. Popov
    Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography at the Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography of the Peoples of the Far East (Far Eastern Branch of Russian Academy of Science), Vladivostok, Russian Federation
  • Lisa Rankin
    Department of Archaeology, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John's, Canada
  • Joshua D. Reuther
    Department of Anthropology, University of Alaska Museum of the North, Fairbanks, AK, USA
  • Mikhail Sablin
    Zoological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg, Russian Federation
  • Anne Lisbeth Schmidt
    National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Scott Shirar
    Department of Anthropology, University of Alaska Museum of the North, Fairbanks, AK, USA
  • Konrad Smiarowski
    The Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, NY, USA
  • Christian Sonne
    Arctic Research Centre, Aarhus Universitet, Aarhus, Denmark
  • Mary C. Stiner
    School of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
  • Mitya Vasyukov
    Department of Biological Diversity and Sustainable Use of Biological Resources, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moskow, Russian Federation
  • Catherine F. West
    Department of Anthropology and Archaeology Program, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
  • Gro Birgit Ween
    University of Oslo Museum of Cultural History, Oslo, Norway
  • Sanne Eline Wennerberg
    Government of Greenland, Veterinary and Food Authority, Nuuk, Greenland
  • Øystein Wiig
    Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
  • James Woollett
    Département des Sciences Historiques, Université Laval, Quebec, Canada
  • Love Dalén
    Department of Bioinformatics and Genetics, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Anders J. Hansen
    Centre for GeoGenetics, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • M. Thomas P. Gilbert
    Section for Evolutionary Genomics, GLOBE Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Benjamin N. Sacks
    Department of Population Health and Reproduction, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA
  • Laurent Frantz
    School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
  • Greger Larson
    The Palaeogenomics and Bio-archaeology Research Network, Research Laboratory for Archaeology and History of Art, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
  • Keith Dobney
    Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, Merseyside, UK
  • Christyann M. Darwent
    Department of Anthropology, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA
  • Allowen Evin
    Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution–Montpellier, CNRS, Université de Montpellier, IRD, EPHE, Montpellier, Occitanie, France

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<jats:p>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.</jats:p>

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