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From early Spanish imports to Mexico and Florida, horses moved north, supplemented by later imports to the east and west coasts brought by British, French, and other European colonists. Native peoples of the Americas quickly obtained horses and developed their own horse culture. [4][5]
There is extensive evidence to support that horses first evolved in North America. Archeologists found fossil remains of the earliest ancestor of horses, the Eohippus, dating to the Eocene Epoch (56-33.9 million years ago) in Wyoming.
It belongs to the taxonomic family Equidae and is one of two extant subspecies of Equus ferus. The horse has evolved over the past 45 to 55 million years from a small multi-toed creature, Eohippus, into the large, single-toed animal of today.
After examining archaeological remains of horses, researchers suggest Indigenous peoples had spread the animals through the American West by the first half of the 1600s—before they...
An international study found that horses were introduced into Indigenous cultures in the American Great Plains and Rocky Mountains decades before European-American records indicate.
“Are horses native to North America?” The answer is unequivocally yes . Scientific evidence and historical records confirm that horses first appeared on the North American continent over 50 million years ago.
The family Equidae, which includes domesticated varieties of horses and donkeys along with zebras and their kin, is actually native to the Americas.
They first migrated into South America and later spread into Asia, Europe, and Africa. However, about 10,000 years ago at the end of the Pleistocene, most of North America’s large mammals,...
Horses are native to North America, and there is fossil evidence that shows that Eohippus, which is the ancient ancestor of today’s modern horse, originated in North America 60 million years ago. Around 10,000 years ago, horses became extinct in North America but were brought back by European settlers and Spanish explorers.
A new study in Science 1 reveals that many Native American populations across the Great Plains and the Rockies had incorporated horses into their cultures by the early 1600s, long before direct contact with Europeans.