Yakutian Laika breed history

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The friendship of man and dog on the territory of modern Yakutia arose a long time ago. This is confirmed by archaeological finds on the banks of the Salah River near the village of Tumat in Yakutia, where the mummified remains of three, monthly puppies of a dog with a fixed age of 12,500 years old were discovered. At the beginning of the 90s of the XX century, a hunting site was discovered on the Zhokhov Island (the Novosibirsk Islands archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, Yakutia), which was examined by the Russian archaeologist Vladimir Pitulko. He found the remnants of sledges, dog harnesses and well-preserved dog bones. Dating by the radiocarbon method showed that the age of the finds lies in the range of 7800-8000 years. It is the oldest station in the high-latitude Arctic. The world scientific journal Science recognized it as the very first evidence of the use of a dog for the transport of goods and, in general, the first evidence of a person's use of a dog for any purpose. This find was proof that on the coast of Northeast Asia the dog was the first animal that the man tamed and began to use as a hunting and riding dog. This is explained by the fact that in the tundra and coastal Arctic there were no other animals suitable for the carriage of goods, but it was possible to get and prepare food for dogs for a long winter. It is very likely that the remains found belonged to the ancestors of the Yakutian Laika, about which the world-famous scientist V. Yokhelson wrote, as a Yukaghir dog living on the Yana and Kolyma rivers, which served as a means of transportation for indigenous to go to islands in the Arctic Ocean when hunting wild deer and search of mammoth bone........