Genetic analysis of possibly the oldest greyhound remains within the territory of the Czech Republic as a proof of a local elite presence at Chotěbuz-Podobora hillfort in the 8th–9th century AD

0453180 - ARÚB 2016 RIV CZ eng J - Journal Article
Svobodová, H. - Bartoš, M. - Nývltová Fišáková, Miriam - Kouřil, Pavel
Genetic analysis of possibly the oldest greyhound remains within the territory of the Czech Republic as a proof of a local elite presence at Chotěbuz-Podobora hillfort in the 8th–9th century AD.
Acta Musei Nationalis Pragae, Series B - Historia Naturalis. Roč. 71, 1-2 (2015), s. 17-24. ISSN 0036-5343
Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z80010507
Institutional support: RVO:68081758
Keywords : greyhound * mtDNA * Control region * Great Moravia * Middle Ages
Subject RIV: AC - Archeology, Anthropology, Ethnology

Very gracile dog bones dated to the 8th–9th century AD were found at the Chotěbuz-Podobora archaeological site in the Czech part of Silesia near the town of Český Těšín. Osteological analysis indicated that the bones were from a greyhound. To confirm this hypothesis, genetic analysis of greyhound-specific Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) in the control region (CD, also D-loop) of the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) was performed, together with analysis of buccal swabs from living greyhounds from the Czech Republic. Our genotyping results strongly support the hypothesis that bones found were from a greyhound which supports the second hypothesis that an elite order inhabited Chotěbuz-Podobora hillfort in the Middle Ages.
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