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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.
Therefore, the domestic horse today is classified as Equus ferus caballus. No genetic originals of native wild horses currently exist. The Przewalski diverged from the modern horse before domestication. It has 66 chromosomes, as opposed to 64 among modern domesticated horses, and their Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) forms a distinct cluster. [15]
The horse (Equus ferus caballus) [2] [3] is a domesticated, one-toed, hoofed mammal. 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.
History of horse domestication theories; History of the horse in Britain; History of the horse in the Indian subcontinent; Horse culture in Mongolia; Horse name; Horse symbolism; Horses in Brittany; Horses in Cameroon; Horses in Cuba; Horses in East Asian warfare; Horses in Jamaica; Horses in Slovenia; Horses in Sudan; Horses in the Napoleonic Wars
The domestication of the horse had a wide-ranging effect on the steppe cultures, and Anthony has done fieldwork on it. [28] Bit wear is a sign of horse-riding, and the dating of horse teeth with signs of bit wear gives clues for the dating of the appearance of horse-riding. [ 29 ]
It is now thought that the domesticated horse, named Equus caballus by Carl Linnaeus in 1758, is descended from the tarpan; indeed, many taxonomists consider them to belong to the same species. By a strict application of the rules of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature , the tarpan ought to be named E. caballus , or if considered ...
The horse may have occupied a key symbolic position from the very beginning, since it is the most represented animal in prehistoric art, [1] favoured since the XXXV millennium BC, well before its domestication. [2] Representing the horse more than other equally (if not more) abundant animals was already a choice for prehistoric man.
The other two scholarly sources which cite Mire's discovery also don't appear to discuss the history of horse domestication - the first is discussing "Schematic Rock Art, Rain-Making and Islam in the Ethio-Sudanese Borderlands" and the second does discuss possible depiction of domestic horses, but at page 15 they date the domesticated horse and ...