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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2025

Gray wolves in an anthropogenic context on a small island in prehistoric Scandinavia.

Linus Girdland-Flink, Anders Bergström, Jan Storå, Erik Ersmark, Jan Apel, Maja Krzewińska, Love Dalén, Anders Götherström, Pontus Skoglund

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Did Stora Karlsö wolves reach the island naturally or by boat?Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  2. Reply to Janssens and Mech: The possibility of natural wolf dispersal to Stora Karlsö.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  3. Genomic ancestry, behavior, and the domestication of the dog.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Linus Girdland-Flink *Department of Archaeology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB24 3UF, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0001-6499-8728
Anders Bergström *School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, United Kingdom.
Jan StoråDepartment of Archaeology and Classical Studies, Stockholm University, Stockholm SE-106 91, Sweden.
Erik ErsmarkCentre for Palaeogenetics, Stockholm SE-106 91, Sweden.
Jan ApelDepartment of Archaeology and Classical Studies, Stockholm University, Stockholm SE-106 91, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-8894-1985
Maja KrzewińskaDepartment of Archaeology and Classical Studies, Stockholm University, Stockholm SE-106 91, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-6702-8724
Love DalénCentre for Palaeogenetics, Stockholm SE-106 91, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0001-8270-7613
Anders GötherströmDepartment of Archaeology and Classical Studies, Stockholm University, Stockholm SE-106 91, Sweden.
Pontus SkoglundAncient Genomics Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, London NW1 1AT, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-3021-5913

Funding

Wellcome Trust FC001595
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Dogs were domesticated at least once from a yet-unidentified wolf population at least ~15,000 y ago. However, how domestication took place is a topic of ongoing debate, and the ability of human groups to manage wolves in their communities during early stages of domestication is poorly understood. Here, we report multiproxy data from two canids excavated from Late Neolithic and Bronze Age contexts in the Stora Förvar cave on the island of Stora Karlsö in the Baltic Sea. The island is small (2.5 sq km) and, like the neighboring island of Gotland, carries no endemic populations of terrestrial mammals. Instead, the current consensus is that human introductions account for some mammal fauna on Gotland, and for the majority of that on Stora Karlsö. Genome-wide data show that the two canids have ancestry indistinguishable from Eurasian wolves, with no shared ancestry with domestic dogs of the

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DomesticationWolvesAnimalsArchaeologyDogsFossilsHistory, AncientHumansIslandsScandinavian and Nordic Countriesancient DNAbronze agedogsdomesticationgray wolves

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PMCPMC12684923

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