Posted on 11/29/2005 8:24:25 PM PST by SunkenCiv
...As I mentioned before, many Native Americans believe that horse was in America many centuries before Columbus. Pony Boy gives one of such traditional narratives in his book, although, it needs to be noted, he generally tends to support the mainstream academic view of horse history in America.
Here's a picture of a very unusual "Przewalski horse".
This wild horse is still found in Mongolia. It is so different, it has 66 chromosomes as compared to the 64 that we find in all other horses. This is a very primitive kind of horse, the one probably quite similar to what the ancient peoples first domesticated. (Nevertheless, some researchers believe that it represents a whole different species as compared to our domesticated horses.)
(Excerpt) Read more at trends.ca ...
There are many myths in American books archaelogy and history. In 2009 the Genome study found that the North american Indigineous people may not have come from the landbridge. they are not similar to siberian and Chinois lines from Asia. The Eskimos may be more attached than the First Nations peoples.
So another myth, that was generally accepted by millions has been debunked.
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