Editing Neanderthal extinction (section)

====Modern humans and alliance with dogs ====
Pat Shipman argues that the [[domestication of the dog]] gave modern humans an advantage when [[hunting]].<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Shipman | first1 = P | year = 2012 | title = Dog domestication may have helped humans thrive while Neandertals declined | url = http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/do-the-eyes-have-it/1 | journal = American Scientist | volume = 100 | issue = 3| page = 198 | doi = 10.1511/2012.96.198 | url-access = subscription }}</ref> Evidence shows the oldest remains of domesticated dogs were found in [[Belgium]] (31,700 BP) and in [[Siberia]] (33,000 BP).<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Ovodov | first1 = ND | last2 = Crockford | first2 = SJ | last3 = Kuzmin | first3 = YV | last4 = Higham | first4 = TFG | last5 = Hodgins | first5 = GWL | display-authors = etal   | year = 2011 | title = A 33,000-Year-Old Incipient Dog from the Altai Mountains of Siberia: Evidence of the Earliest Domestication Disrupted by the Last Glacial Maximum | journal = PLOS ONE | volume = 6 | issue = 7| page = e22821 | doi = 10.1371/journal.pone.0022821 | pmid=21829526 | pmc=3145761| bibcode = 2011PLoSO...622821O | doi-access = free }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Germonpré | first1 = M. | last2 = Sablin | first2 = M.V. | last3 = Stevens | first3 = R.E. | last4 = Hedges | first4 = R.E.M. | last5 = Hofreiter | first5 = M. | last6 = Stiller | first6 = M. | last7 = Jaenicke-Desprese | first7 = V. | year = 2009 | title = Fossil dogs and wolves from Palaeolithic sites in Belgium, the Ukraine and Russia: osteometry, ancient DNA and stable isotopes | journal = [[Journal of Archaeological Science]] | volume = 36 | issue = 2| pages = 473–490 | doi=10.1016/j.jas.2008.09.033| bibcode = 2009JArSc..36..473G }}</ref>  A survey of early sites of modern humans and Neanderthals with faunal remains across [[Spain]], [[Portugal]] and [[France]] provided an overview of what modern humans and Neanderthals ate.<ref>{{cite journal| doi=10.1016/j.jhevol.2013.01.002 | pmid=23422239 | volume=64 | issue=4 | title=Rabbits and hominin survival in Iberia | year=2013 | journal=Journal of Human Evolution | pages=233–241 | last1 = Fa | first1 = John E. | last2 = Stewart | first2 = John R. | last3 = Lloveras | first3 = Lluís | last4 = Vargas | first4 = J. Mario| bibcode=2013JHumE..64..233F }}</ref> [[Rabbit]] became more frequent, while large [[mammal]]s – mainly eaten by the Neanderthals – became increasingly rare. In 2013, DNA testing on the "Altai dog", a [[Paleolithic]] dog's remains from the Razboinichya Cave ([[Altai Mountains]]), has linked this 33,000-year-old dog with the present lineage of ''[[Canis familiaris]]''.<ref name=altai-dog-dna>{{cite journal | last1 = Druzhkova | first1 = AS | last2 = Thalmann | first2 = O | last3 = Trifonov | first3 = VA | last4 = Leonard | first4 = JA | last5 = Vorobieva | first5 = NV | display-authors = etal   | year = 2013 | title = Ancient DNA Analysis Affirms the Canid from Altai as a Primitive Dog | journal = PLOS ONE | volume = 8 | issue = 3| page = e57754 | doi = 10.1371/journal.pone.0057754 | pmid=23483925 | pmc=3590291| bibcode = 2013PLoSO...857754D | doi-access = free }}</ref>