Enlarge / Horses on the Kazakh Steppe. (credit: Togzhan Ibrayeva via Wikimedia Commons) From Neanderthals to human hunter-gatherers to the mounted horde of Genghis Khan, the Eurasian Steppe has long been a crossroads of humanity. And for the last 5,000 years or so, domesticated horses have shaped how people moved through, lived in, and dominated […]
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Ancient DNA rules out archeologists’ best bet for horse domestication
Enlarge (credit: Ted / Flickr) It would be difficult to overstate how instrumental the horse has been in shaping the world around us today. That’s easy to forget now that most of us get around by other means, but horses were central to human mobility for millennia, and much of our history of warfare and […]