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In 2018, genomic comparison of 42 ancient-horse genomes, 20 of which were from Botai, with 46 published ancient and modern-horse genomes yielded surprising results. It was found that modern domestic horses are not closely related to the horses at Botai. Rather, Przewalski’s horses were identified as feral descendants of horses herded at Botai.
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.
The history of horse domestication has been subject to much debate, with various competing hypotheses over time about how domestication of the horse occurred. The main point of contention was whether the domestication of the horse occurred once in a single domestication event, or that the horse was domesticated independently multiple times.
The genomic evidence showed that horses were first domesticated in Central Asia - northern Kazakhstan to be precise - about 5,500 years ago by people from what is called the Botai culture. But ...
Watch the Video. Click here to watch on YouTube. No animal has propelled humans into the modern world quite like horses. First domesticated in around 3500 BCE, horses have spread across the globe ...
Ever wondered when those animals on the farm made it to the farm?. Well, humans decided to tame some of them as pets and others for more appetizing reasons many years ago.. SEE ALSO: Meet the ...
Horse bones may also be rare because horses were probably not eaten or used in burials by the Harappans. [ 15 ] [ 16 ] Remains and artifacts ascribed to domesticated horses are limited to Late Harappan times [ 17 ] [ 5 ] [ note 10 ] indicating that horses may have been present at Late Harappan times, [ 3 ] "when the Vedic people had settled in ...
Around 4,200 years ago, one particular lineage of horse quickly became dominant across Eurasia, suggesting that’s when humans started to spread domesticated horses around the world, according to ...