Posted on 11/28/2009 7:40:07 AM PST by decimon
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Our team conducted extensive research at three sites belonging to the Botai culture in the northern part of the country, at locations dated to the Copper Age around 3,500 B.C.
We selected the region because it was here in the heart of the Eurasian steppe where the tarpan, a small wild horse, thrived after they had vanished from most parts of the world. It was estimated that the tarpan lived successfully in the area through most of the Holocene, beginning about 11,700 years ago, before going extinct in the early 20th century.
Upon examining the sites, we found evidence that could point to the early phases of horse domestication and help explain its initial impacts on society. We found that early domesticated horses were eaten, milked and ridden.
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Botais and tails ping.
A horse is a horse, of course, of course,
And no one can talk to a horse of course,
That is of course, unless the horse is....
Guess they didn't know how to make glue.
Milked??
Goats and sheep are milked so why not horses?
Pants were invented about the same time that bare-back riding of horses began.
A well known fact that the Mongols milked horses and made some type of food out of it(probably tasted pretty bad).
Just not into the concept...but it has the lowest fat content. I’d say that to us...their value is in better uses.
Cheese.
BTW, Bulgaria made no progress of any kind under the Communists. When they were finally set free by Ronaldus Magnus and his Republican party they discovered they had a vast wealth in foods prepared "the good old way", plus they had more horses than anyone needs anymore.
They are big time in the specialty foods business ~ and "organic methods" never disappeared for them.
A small steppe from here to there.
PING
YOUR DOING IT WRONG!
Not necessarily in that order.
http://www.mongolfood.info/en/recipes/airag.html
Most interesting.
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Thanks decimon. When one whispers to a horse, what is the mane topic of conversation? |
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Not necessarily in that order.
LOL
That must have been the inspiration for the Galloping Gourmet...why not eat the horse you rode in on?
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