[SunkenCiv]

When Mae West met Mr Ed Horsing Around

[BenLurkin]

Catherine the Great?

[jerod]

"You only live once but if you do it right, once is enough." -- Mae West

[JimRed]

A hunter oriented culture would be unlikely to make a pet or companion out of a food animal. Must have been after agriculture started to “take root”.

[Bob434]

now if we could only domesticate women

[reg45]

Which was domesticated first, the horse or the dog?

[buckalfa]

Anybody ask Jean Auel ? /s

[AnotherUnixGeek]

to the equestrian nations of the American Great Plains, horses were the engines of the ancient world.

The "equestrian nations of the American Great Plains" were a relatively recent and short-lived by-product of European settlers, who introduced horses to North America.

[Buttons12]

I believe that children domesticated horses. Adults kept horses for food and kept telling the kids not to play with their food, but kids kept climbing on horses anyway. And kids love what runs like the wind. :)

[MayflowerMadam]

“new tech could help archaeologists figure out where and when”

Why do we need to know? They’re horses, for Pete’s sake, and are domesticated. Good. Aren’t there more important issues these people could be working on?

Reminds me of the TV shows on Discovery, etc., where highly degree-ed adults seriously discuss how aliens flew down and impregnated the humans and created current DNA. They sound like Skinny Pete and Badger concocting their plots for Star Trek.

[FatherFig1o155]

Kinda like all the research that’s trying to find when and how dogs adopted all of us humans.

Not a bad pursuit in the realm of knowledge, but less important when Americans are still legitimately struggling day to day.

BTW: Although the article is general, it is authored by a prof from my alma mater, so the US is somehow involved, I suspect.

[nicollo]

Eat ‘em first, milk ‘em, next, then ride ‘em.

Then spread your language and culture.

Just a matter of when.