Posted on 09/20/2020 10:24:00 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
For many years, scientists have believed that the horse was first domesticated in Anatolia approximately 5,500 years ago. Anatolia is the peninsula also known as Asia Minor; today it makes up most of Turkey. In this new effort, the researchers have found evidence that suggests that horses were actually first domesticated in the Eurasian Steppe and were exported to Anatolia approximately 4,000 years ago, during the Bronze Age.
The work involved obtaining and genetically analyzing 100 equid remains that had been found at eight sites in Anatolia and six in the Caucasus (a region between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea that is today mainly occupied by Armenia) dating back 2,500 to 11,000 years ago. Some of the remains were from domesticated horses, while others were from those that had remained wild. To learn more about their origins, the researchers conducted paleogenetic and morphological studies that included analysis of Y chromosome DNA, mitochondrial DNA and DNA markers that have previously been associated with coat color. Over time, domestication has led to changes in the coat color of horses. They found lineages present in modern domestic horses that appeared suddenly in 2,000 BCE horses (as opposed to showing up over time) which suggested that domestication had occurred elsewhere. A sharp change in coat colors also suggested horses had been brought to the region from somewhere else. The researchers suggest that the other location was likely north and west of the Caucasus, closer to the Black Sea -- the exact site is still unknown.
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They ate them there, and they were wild horses. In fact, they listened to Keith Richards play “Wild Horses” while they ate.
Thanks Wuli!
The already-domesticated horse carried its rider all the way there from the steppe, and whinny got there, he just started a horse farm. :^)
My pleasure.
Now that I've gotten around to watching it, I probably should have done that before posting it. [blush]
Nah.
Don’t need ladders to climb tents.
Ladders were, obviously, invented by the “not now they ain’t” faction of the My Walls are Bigger Than Your Walls culture of the mid east.
Walls were invented in Michigan, by the Green Valley Boys. Yes, that was so obscure I had to check sources to verify childhood memories.
I thought that was commonly accepted that horses were domesticated in the Kuban/north of the Caspian sea area by the Aryan tribes and that domestication is what enabled them to spread first south-east to India (then branching west to become Gutians and then Hittites) and then west to become various Europeans.
Zebras are inifinitely more difficult to domesticate - even now people aren’t able to do this. Horses - at least the ancestral ones (think Przewalski’s horses) are far smaller and easier to control
Their descendants would be
Rajputs
and those that stayed behind and were absorbed by the TurkiC peoples became Uyghur
They ate them there, and they were wild horses.
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Wild is open to dispute. There is evidence that the horses wore bridles (from tooth wear) and carved representations show them with bridles and harnesses. Wild does not explain how that particular species (equus przevalski) got from the Gobi to Europe.
People eat animals - nothing new there.
After 10800BC, horse domestication appears to have been lost very likely due to the worldwide disastrous comet strike.
Keith Richards can’t ride horses. He just did the song for the money.
Domestication of the horse happened twice. Once somewhere in Asia and the second was on the plains of North America in the 1500s-1600s.
Your statement surprises me.
Horses lived in North America a very long time ago, but the Native Americans found them tasty and hunted them into extinction. Then there were no horses in North America. Until the Spanish arrived with their domesticated horses. Some of which were stolen and some of which escaped. That’s how Native Americans got hold of domesticated horses.
I’m not at all sure that Native Americans deserve credit for domesticating horses on the plains of North America in the 1500s-1600s
I saw one of Przewalski's horses in a zoo. Looked very horselike. So nice of Mr. Przewalski to give one of his horses to the zoo.
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