The Oldest Surviving Landrace in Asia
The Indian Pariah dog is not a stray that lost its home. It is a landrace, a population shaped entirely by its environment over millennia, with no selective breeding by humans. A 2017 study published in PLOS Genetics, which mapped the ancestry of dog populations across South and Southeast Asia, identified the Indian Pariah as one of the most ancient dog lineages on earth, diverging from wolves approximately 15,000 years ago in the Indian subregion. It predates every modern breed by thousands of years.
