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European wild horses were hunted for up to 10% of the animal bones in a handful of Mesolithic and Neolithic settlements scattered across Spain, France, and the marshlands of northern Germany, but in many other parts of Europe, including Greece, the Balkans, the British Isles, and much of central Europe, horse bones do not occur or occur very ...
Extinct equids restored to scale. Left to right: Mesohippus, Neohipparion, Eohippus, Equus scotti and Hypohippus. Wild horses have been known since prehistory from central Asia to Europe, with domestic horses and other equids being distributed more widely in the Old World, but no horses or equids of any type were found in the New World when European explorers reached the Americas.
Horses were used predominantly for transporting goods and people; numerous English place-names, such as Stadhampton, Stoodleigh and Studham, refer to the keeping of "studs", in this case "herds", of horses; [41] and Anglo-Saxon stirrups and spurs have been found by archaeologists. [42] Horses were also raced for sport, [43] and a "race-course ...
The “elite” horses were bred around Europe and brought to the center of British power, ... More than 70 horses were found to be buried here, the researchers said, and the site was dated to ...
The tool, which was made between 1,300 and 800 B.C., was well-preserved, officials said. Over 200 other artifacts were found at the site, including the skeletal remains of a young child and the ...
The most recent, but most irrefutable, evidence of domestication comes from sites where horse remains were buried with chariots in graves of the Sintashta and Petrovka cultures c. 2100 BCE. [51] Studies of variation in genetic material shows that a very few wild stallions, possibly all from a single haplotype , contributed to the domestic horse ...
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The tarpan or European wild horse (Equus ferus ferus) was found in Europe and much of Asia. It survived into the historical era, but became extinct in 1909, when the last captive died in a Russian zoo. [142] Thus, the genetic line was lost.