Dog domestication during ice age. Analysis of Paleolithic-era teeth from a 28,500-year-old fossil site in the Czech Republic provides supporting evidence for two groups of canids -- one dog-like and the other wolf-like - with differing diets, which is consistent with the early domestication of dogs. Source 7x.
Numerous genetic studies place Southeast Asia as the place of origin of the domestic dog about 33,000 years ago. After a few thousand years of evolution in this part of Asia, a subgroup of dogs migrated to the Middle East, Africa, and Europe about 15,000 years ago.