The origin of dogs from wolves is ****ed up, but there is a lot of confusion around exactly where and when they originated. The earliest fossilized evidence of a dog is from a 14,000 year old fossilized mandible from Germany, and this archaeological evidence supports the idea that dogs originated in Southwest Asia or Europe, while on the other hand, the skeletal identification features of the dog suggest that the dog may have originated from the wolf, leading to the theory of an East Asian origin for the dog.