The domestication of dogs has been an inflection point in the history of both humans and wolves. As important as the event was, it predates written history, requiring the use of archeological and genomic research to determine where the origin point was. The combination of applying morphometric analysis, archaeological record, and genetic testing has done much to help narrow the understanding of the point of origin for domestication. Common modeling single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) haplotyping, microsatellite comparison, and mitochondrial DNA sequencing combined statistical analysis programs such as R, Treepuzzle, and Structure have been able to create a more detailed view of the origin of dog domestication than was previously possible
