the rest of the authors: Natalie A. Stear, Robin Bendrey, Sandra Olsen, Alexei Kasparov, Victor Zaibert, Nick Thorpe, Richard P. EvershedThe Earliest Horse Harnessing and MilkingHorse domestication revolutionized transport, communications, and warfare in prehistory, yet the identification of early domestication processes has been problematic. Here, we present three independent lines of evidence demonstrating domestication in the Eneolithic Botai Culture of Kazakhstan, dating to about 3500 B.C.E. Metrical analysis of horse metacarpals shows that Botai horses resemble Bronze Age domestic horses rather than Paleolithic wild horses from the same region. Pathological characteristics indicate that some Botai horses were bridled, perhaps ridden. Organic residue analysis, using 13C and D values of fatty acids, reveals processing of mare's milk and carcass products in ceramics, indicating a developed domestic economy encompassing secondary products.
Alan K. Outram et al
Science Magazine
Friday, March 6, 2009
pp 1332-1335
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Now if we could only domesticate our automobiles like we did in the 20’s, 30’s and 40’s.
Horse domestication revolutionized transport, communications, and warfare in prehistory,
The domestication of the horse and other 'beasts od burden' is one thing that's always been a head scratcher for me. Wherever there's been 'horses', they've always been 'domesticated'. From Asia to Europe and even the Arabs, the horse was domesticated. Even our 'Indians' domesticated the wild horses the Spanish brought to the New World. And where there wern't horse they domesticated Camels and the Elephanst in India.
To my knowledge this has happened everywhere except one place - sub Saharan Africa. Zebras, no and Elephants, no. The Zebra is similar to the smallish Asian horse the Mongols used, so I don't see why none was ever 'tamed'. No 'beast' was ever domesticated so they could RIDE instead of having to walk everywhere. And IMO that's one place riding beats the heck out of walking!
I don't know what the disconnect was but these locals never thought of this concept. I don't mean this to be racist but there must have been something wrong that unlike every other race, 'Africans' never domesticated an animal they could ride.
Maybe an Anthropologist should do a study on this?
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Horses tamed 1,000 years earlier than thought
Times Online | 06 Mar 2009 | Mark Henderson
Posted on 03/06/2009 8:03:54 AM PST by BGHater
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2200706/posts
Since the article is behind a subscriber firewall I don't know how large these horses were, but the earliest horses known in civilized countries were too small to be ridden by an adult, which is why chariots came earlier in warfare than cavalry.