Specialized sledge dogs accompanied Inuit dispersal across the North American Arctic

Author:

Ameen Carly12ORCID,Feuerborn Tatiana R.34567,Brown Sarah K.8910,Linderholm Anna1112,Hulme-Beaman Ardern21213ORCID,Lebrasseur Ophélie21214ORCID,Sinding Mikkel-Holger S.1551617,Lounsberry Zachary T.9,Lin Audrey T.1218ORCID,Appelt Martin19,Bachmann Lutz16,Betts Matthew2021,Britton Kate2223,Darwent John8,Dietz Rune2425,Fredholm Merete26,Gopalakrishnan Shyam415ORCID,Goriunova Olga I.27,Grønnow Bjarne19,Haile James12,Hallsson Jón Hallsteinn28,Harrison Ramona29,Heide-Jørgensen Mads Peter30,Knecht Rick22,Losey Robert J.31,Masson-MacLean Edouard22,McGovern Thomas H.3233,McManus-Fry Ellen22,Meldgaard Morten45,Midtdal Åslaug34,Moss Madonna L.35,Nikitin Iurii G.36,Nomokonova Tatiana37,Pálsdóttir Albína Hulda3828,Perri Angela39,Popov Aleksandr N.36,Rankin Lisa40,Reuther Joshua D.41,Sablin Mikhail42,Schmidt Anne Lisbeth19,Shirar Scott41,Smiarowski Konrad3343,Sonne Christian244445,Stiner Mary C.46,Vasyukov Mitya47,West Catherine F.48,Ween Gro Birgit49,Wennerberg Sanne Eline50,Wiig Øystein16,Woollett James51,Dalén Love67,Hansen Anders J.45,P. Gilbert M. Thomas1552,Sacks Benjamin N.539,Frantz Laurent54,Larson Greger1255,Dobney Keith22256,Darwent Christyann M.8,Evin Allowen57ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Archaeology, University of Exeter, Exeter, Devon, UK

2. Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, Merseyside, UK

3. Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

4. Centre for GeoGenetics, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

5. The Qimmeq Project, University of Greenland, Nuussuaq, Greenland

6. Department of Bioinformatics and Genetics, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden

7. Centre for Palaeogenetics, Stockholm, Sweden

8. Department of Anthropology, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA

9. Mammalian Ecology and Conservation Unit of the Veterinary Genetics Laboratory, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA

10. Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, Olympia, WA, USA

11. Department of Anthropology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA

12. The Palaeogenomics and Bio-archaeology Research Network, Research Laboratory for Archaeology and History of Art, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

13. School of Natural Sciences and Psychology, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK

14. GCRF One Health Regional Network for the Horn of Africa (HORN) Project, Institute of Infection and Global Health, Liverpool, UK

15. Section for Evolutionary Genomics, GLOBE Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

16. Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

17. Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, Nuuk, Greenland

18. Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

19. National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark

20. Canadian Museum of History, Gatineau, Quebec, Canada

21. Department of Anthropology, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada

22. Department of Archaeology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK

23. Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany

24. Arctic Research Centre, Aarhus Universitet, Aarhus, Denmark

25. Department of Bioscience Roskilde, Aarhus Universitet, Roskilde, Denmark

26. Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

27. Laboratory of Archaeology and Paleoecology of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography (Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Science), Irkutsk, Russian Federation

28. Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, The Agricultural University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland

29. Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies, and Religion, University of Bergen, Bergen, Hordaland, Norway

30. Birds and Mammals, Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, Copenhagen K, Denmark

31. Department of Anthropology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

32. Department of Anthropology, Hunter College CUNY, New York, NY, USA

33. The Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, NY, USA

34. Holmenkollen Ski Museum, Oslo, Norway

35. Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA

36. 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

37. Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

38. Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES) Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

39. Department of Archaeology, Durham University, Durham, UK

40. Department of Archaeology, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John's, Canada

41. Department of Anthropology, University of Alaska Museum of the North, Fairbanks, AK, USA

42. Zoological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg, Russian Federation

43. Section for Cultural Heritage Management, Department of Cultural History, University Museum of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

44. Department of Bioscience, Aarhus Universitet, Aarhus, Denmark

45. School of Forestry, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, China

46. School of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA

47. Department of Biological Diversity and Sustainable Use of Biological Resources, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moskow, Russian Federation

48. Department of Anthropology and Archaeology Program, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA

49. University of Oslo Museum of Cultural History, Oslo, Norway

50. Government of Greenland, Veterinary and Food Authority, Nuuk, Greenland

51. Département des Sciences Historiques, Université Laval, Quebec, Canada

52. Norwegian University of Science and Technology, University Museum, Trondheim, Norway

53. Department of Population Health and Reproduction, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA

54. School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK

55. School of Archaeology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

56. Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

57. Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution–Montpellier, CNRS, Université de Montpellier, IRD, EPHE, Montpellier, Occitanie, France

Abstract

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.

Funder

H2020 European Research Council

Wellcome Trust

Division of Polar Programs

Natural Environment Research Council

Arts and Humanities Research Council

H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

ITN ArchSci2020

Publisher

The Royal Society

Subject

General Agricultural and Biological Sciences,General Environmental Science,General Immunology and Microbiology,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology,General Medicine

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