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Domestication of the horse. A Heck Horse, bred to resemble the now-extinct Tarpan. How and when horses became domesticated has been disputed. Although horses appeared in Paleolithic cave art as early as 30,000 BC, these were wild horses and were probably hunted for meat.
May 19, 2022 · With 264 ancient horse genomes in hand, the answer was undeniable: The homeland of modern domestic horses was the part of Western Eurasia between and north of the Black and Caspian seas, more...
Domesticating wild horses on the plains of Eurasia was a process, not a single event, scientists say. Archaeologists have previously found evidence of people consuming horse milk in dental remains ...
Oct 20, 2021 · Analysis of 273 ancient horse genomes reveals that modern domestic horses originated in the Western Eurasian steppes, especially the lower Volga-Don region.
Based on modern genetic analyses, the answers to the questions surrounding horse domestication are that the horse has a diverse ancestry, that there was more than one domestication event, and that domestic horses have been widely interbred throughout the history of their domestication.
2 days ago · Around 4,200 years ago, one particular lineage of horse quickly became dominant across Eurasia, suggesting that’s when humans started to spread domesticated horses around the world, according to ...
Oct 20, 2021 · The cattle-herding region already had indirect archaeological evidence of horse domestication, but the new DNA research now shows that modern domestic horses can be traced to equines living...
