Researchers discovered that Botai horses were, in fact, the ancestors of Przewalski’s horses, an endangered population of more than 500 wild horses living today in Mongolia.Credit: © Yantar, Shutterstock
Grant money is forever!! Wonder how many are getting what. I’m sue it’s in the millions.
Numnut writer, it was a metric for measuring how much fast work a vehicle would do with respect to the horse," he said.
I can’t help but think that there is a sampling error if their conclusion that the eclipsing of Neolithic hunter gatherers by R1a (Yamnaya?) took place without horses. Chicks dig a dude with a mobility, horse or wheels depending upon the epoch, which to me accounts best for the disappearance of Neolithic hunter gatherer dna.
The first man who decided it might be a good idea to mount a horse and see what happens was a very brave man. Even if his life did have a sudden and tragic end, he paved the trail for others to follow.
Jean M. Auel explained it in “The Valley of Horses”. Her guess is as good as any of those “studying” the topic.