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The first domesticated horses: 6,000 years of a complex story
- May 13, 2026 at 7:26 PM
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Horses were being ridden, worked, and traded long before anyone thought it possible. New research pushes back the accepted timeline of human use of horses by centuries, showing that humans used horses in organized ways as early as the 4th millennium BCE, if not earlier. The research is published in the journal Science Advances.
Originally published at Phys.org