[blam]

"It's still a mystery to archaeologists when and where horses were first tamed in China.

I don't believe they were tamed in China.

[martin_fierro]

Genetic Genealogy-esque PING

[NormsRevenge]

Giddyup.

when and where horses were first tamed?

Good question.

[eeevil conservative]

I think these guys need a hobby...

or a date.... and NO! I am NOT VOLUNTEERING FOR THE JOB!

[BlackVeil]

'sudden emergence' of tamed horses in the late Shang Dynasty makes the history of horses in China very confusing," said Cai.

Weren't they brought in by northern invaders, nomadic tribes from southern Russia?

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

I don't believe they were tamed in China.

Maybe not first tamed.

Didn't I read somewhere a few years back about how the discovered that while domesticated sheep and cattle came from a relatively small gene pool that domesticate horses tended to come from a much larger pool. This suggested a multiple domestication for the horse.

[JimSEA]

Just based on what is known about Shang China and the relatively sudden appearance of horses and spoked wheel chariots, you seem correct. The Chinese have never been aggressively expansive (as opposed to the all conquering Mongols, but have adsorbed the technology of adjacent people, particularly those on the great steppe.

[Verginius Rufus]

The word for "horse" in Chinese is ma. I read somewhere that it could be a word of Indo-European origin (cognate with English mare and Anglo-Saxon mearh "horse")--there were some ancient peoples speaking Indo-European tongues in Central Asia, and the name could have spread along with the animal to China.

The same character for ma meaning "horse" is the first of the three characters used to write "Marx" in Chinese. I wish that I could report that the other two characters mean "rear" and "end" respectively, but that would be wrong.

I don't know Chinese, but I have a Chinese-English dictionary which shows the characters.

[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

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/chat/2200706/posts

Earliest domesticated horses dated 5,500 years ago
AP via Yahoo! | Thursday, March 5, 2009 | Randolph E. Schmid
Posted on 03/06/2009 8:59:29 AM PST by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2200759/posts