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May 19, 2022 · Sifting through fossil bones and teeth, paleontologists have traced the ancestry of horses back roughly 50 million years to a dog-sized, hoofed animal called Hyracotherium — aka eohippus, the...
The clearest evidence of early use of the horse as a means of transport is from chariot burials dated c. 2000 BC. [1] [2] However, an increasing amount of evidence began to support the hypothesis that horses were domesticated in the Eurasian Steppes in approximately 3500 BC.
Archaeological evidence indicates that the domestication of horses had taken place by approximately 6,000 years ago in the steppelands north of the Black Sea from Ukraine to Kazakhstan. Despite intensive study over a long period of time, many questions remain about the early development of the species as it underwent domestication.
NameOriginHeight (hands)*AptitudeAkhal-TekeTurkmenistan14.2–16riding, racingAmerican Paint HorseU.S.15–16ridingU.S.14.2–16riding, racing, herdingU.S.15–16riding, light draftHorse - Evolution, Domestication, Anatomy: The history of the horse family, Equidae, began during the Eocene Epoch. Eohippus (Hyracotherium) was the first ancestral horse to appear. The line leading from Eohippus to Equus, the modern horse, includes Orohippus, Epihippus, Mesohippus, Miohippus, Parahippus, Merychippus, and Pliohippus.
Aug 31, 2018 · By. K. Kris Hirst. Updated on August 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.
Oct 20, 2021 · Nature - Analysis of 273 ancient horse genomes reveals that modern domestic horses originated in the Western Eurasian steppes, especially the lower Volga-Don region.
Domestication Timeline. Part of the Horse exhibition. More in Horse. Most of the domestic animals familiar to us today were domesticated not long after people began farming and living in permanent settlements, between 8000 and 2500 BC. 15,000 years ago.
