03/04/2026
Istraživači Laboratorije za bioarheologiju, prof. dr Vesna Dimitrijević i doc. dr Sonja Vuković učestvovale su u međunarodnoj arheogenetičkoj studiji o poreklu pasa u Evropi i Anadoliji, koja je pod nazivom Dogs were widely distributed across western Eurasia during the Palaeolithic objavljena u časopisu Nature. Istraživanje su vodili istraživači Muzeja prirodne istorije u Londonu, Ludvig-Maksimiljanus Univerziteta u Minhenu i Univerziteta u Oksfordu. Ovaj rad je pokazao da je već tokom kasnog gornjeg paleolita postojala genetički ujednačena populacija pasa, koja je bila široko rasprostranjena širom Evrope i Anadolije, kao i da su psi razmenjivani između različitih populacija lovaca sakupljača zapadne Evroazije. U radu je proučavanjem nuklearnih i mitohondrijalnih genoma pasa sa mezolitskih nalazišta Vlasac i Padina u Đerdapskoj klisuri u Srbiji uočen značajan priliv genetskog nasleđa pasa iz istočne Evroazije tokom mezolita, koji se poklapa sa dolaskom istočnih lovaca-sakupljača u Evropu, što je u velikoj meri oblikovalo osnovne genetske karakteristike današnjih evropskih populacija pasa.
Članak je dostupan na sledećoj adresi: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10170-x
Researchers from the Laboratory for Bioarchaeology (Departement of Archaeology, University of Belgrade – Faculty of Philosophy), Prof. Dr. Vesna Dimitrijević and Assist. Prof. Dr. Sonja Vuković, participated in an international archaeogenetic study on the origin of dogs in Europe and Anatolia, published in the journal Nature under the title Dogs were widely distributed across western Eurasia during the Palaeolithic. The research was led by scientists from the Natural History Museum in London, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, and the University of Oxford. The study demonstrated that already during the Late Upper Palaeolithic there existed a genetically homogeneous dog population that was widely distributed across Europe and Anatolia, and that dogs were exchanged among different hunter-gatherer populations of western Eurasia. By analyzing nuclear and mitochondrial genomes of dogs from the Mesolithic sites of Vlasac and Padina in the Danube Gorges in Serbia, the researchers identified a significant influx of eastern Eurasian dog ancestry during the Mesolithic. This influx coincides with the arrival of eastern hunter-gatherers into Europe and largely shaped the fundamental genetic characteristics of present-day European dog populations.
The article is available at the following link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10170-x
