When and how people domesticated #horses has long posed an archeological mystery.
Over the past 20 years, it’s been believed that horses were first domesticated in sites of the Botai culture in Kazakhstan. But now, new analyses of bones, teeth, genetics and artifacts suggest it’s time to revise this long-standing hypothesis for how humans domesticated horses.
https://theconversation.com/domesticating-horses-had-a-huge-impact-on-human-society-new-science-rewrites-where-and-when-it-first-happened-226800
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