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Domesticated horses could have been adopted from neighboring herding societies in the steppes west of the Ural Mountains, where the Khvalynsk culture had herds of cattle and sheep, and perhaps had domesticated horses, as early as 4800 BCE.
Scientists had several candidates for potential sites of horse domestication before finally, in 2021, determining that today’s domestic horses originated in the lower Volga-Don region...
In a study published last week in the journal Nature, archaeologists used DNA analysis to trace horse domestication to roughly 2200 B.C.E.—about 1,000 years later than previously...
New analyses of bones, teeth, genetics and artifacts suggest it’s time to revise a long-standing hypothesis for how humans domesticated horses.
Now, evidence from a new study using DNA analysis suggests horses were first domesticated 4,200 years ago in the steppes of the Black Sea region, part of modern-day Russia, before spreading...
Most evidence indicates that humans spread domestic horses from western Eurasia and that domestic populations were supplemented with wild individuals which increased the genetic diversity of domestic horses.
The evolutionary lineage of the horse is among the best-documented in all paleontology. The history of the horse family, Equidae, began during the Eocene Epoch, which lasted from about 56 million to 33.9 million years ago.
Analysis of 273 ancient horse genomes reveals that modern domestic horses originated in the Western Eurasian steppes, especially the lower Volga-Don region.
Evidence from Kazakhstan. In the late 2000s, a proliferation of scientific research seemed to narrow the field to a single, compelling answer for the first domestication of the horse. Researchers zeroed in on a site called Botai, in northern Kazakhstan, dating back to around 5,500 years ago.
Where, when, and how did humans first domesticate horses? Tracing the origins of horse domestication in the ancient era has proven to be an exceedingly difficult task. Horses—and the people who care for them—tend to live in remote, dry, or cold grassland regions, moving often and leaving only ephemeral marks in the archaeological record.