Did the stone age have dogs as pets

Dog was the earliest animal to be domesticated and we have concrete evidence for this from at least around 14,000 years ago, at the end of the earliest stage of the stone age. As to whether these animals could have been described as pets is another issue. It is likely they were primarily kept as working animals, assisting with hunting. By the middle stone age, or Mesolithic there is evidence that dogs had a special status in society, indicated by their burial in human cemeteries (as seen at Skateholm in Sweden).