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Oct 22, 2021 · Archaeologists have used ancient DNA samples to identify the genetic homeland of modern horses, where the animals were first domesticated around 4,200 years ago. According to a study published in ...
Feb 23, 2018 · A study of the DNA of ancient horses has discovered that "there are no truly wild horses left" anywhere in the world. The research found the breed thought to be the world's only remaining 'wild ...
Aug 31, 2018 · The modern domesticated horse ( Equus caballus) is today spread throughout the world and among the most diverse creatures on the planet. In North America, the horse was part of the megafaunal extinctions at the end of the Pleistocene. Two wild subspecies survived until recently, the Tarpan ( Equus ferus ferus, died out ca 1919) and Przewalski's ...
For over a decade there has been general, but not universal, consensus that the earliest known evidence for horse husbandry was at Eneolithic Botai, Kazakhstan, circa 3,500 BCE. Recent ancient genomic analyses, however, indicate that Botai is not the source of modern domestic horse stock (DOM2 lineage), but is instead related to the Przewalski clade of horses. DOM2 appears to instead to have ...
Apr 2, 2021 · Despite its transformative impact on human history, the early domestication of the horse (Equus caballus) remains exceedingly difficult to trace in the archaeological record. In recent years, a ...
May 8, 2012 · New research indicates that domestic horses originated in the steppes of modern-day Ukraine, southwest Russia and west Kazakhstan, mixing with local wild stocks as they spread throughout Europe and Asia. The research was published yesterday, 07 May, in the journal PNAS. For several decades scientists puzzled over the origin of domesticated horses.
Nov 6, 2018 · According to a recent study, it seems there have been two separate accounts of horse domestication in history — with two different species of horses. National Geographic covers the “Steppe Hypothesis,” which holds that around 3,000 B.C., a group of horse-riding herdsmen known as the Yamnaya migrated from the Black and Caspian Seas to as far west as Europe and east into Central and South ...
