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Dogs were domesticated in the way of being accommodated, fed and somewhat disciplined (when not educated) by humans. The theory, that doesn't come from AnPrims, is that the dogs were useful to guard the caves where humans sheltered. There's hypothesis that the early dogs were domesticated wolves, yet there's also plenty of proof of the existence of dogs (like the small dogs found among PNW natives) that were very different to wolves. The genetic split between wolves and dogs was dated as far back as 100,000 years ago... So some breeds had a "natural" predisposition to live along with humans. Perhaps the same story with cats.

As for the control of fire being used in support of hierarchies, that's highly questionable, unless you get me instance where there was some intense ritualization of fire-making... and exclusion from it. There were countless rituals around the fire of course, yet making fires didn't appear to be such an expertise kept for a small number of "L337" people, who also used this status to gain influence over the clan/tribe. I'd like to be proven wrong, but it doesn't stick to anything I've seen/read... Starting fires was a pretty social activity where people used to be gathering around, so it must have become a basic skill learned since childhood.

And there's one thing I find tiring... it's that endless noise about stuff that happened 10k, 50k, 1 M years back and how people are living back then. We know jack shit about it, beyond a few scarce clues that don't mean a lot in themselves. People should quit making all these bold claims about shit that happened before like 3000 years ago because we're in fact mostly in the dark about it. What the fuck is wrong with claiming ignorance? Just say it... "I don't know." or "I ain't sure." It's easy!

Like is there really a distant past origins to authoritarianism? Or is it something that is rather ingrained in the social norms and representations inculcated to people at every new generation? What is real? Is the past still a living reality weighting upon all of us? Not sure!

But for some reason, like the fascists and racists have been doing for quite a while, we gotta draw these big historical narratives to fit our own politicized worldviews. Which maintains the fear of the unknown, instead of accepting the unknown, and building understanding out if this awareness. This is also what it means to be "abolishing ideology".