But when and how people domesticated horses has been an ongoing scientific mystery. Half a million years ago or more, early human ancestors hunted horses with wooden spears, the very first weapons ...

Humans have hunted and eaten horses for far longer than we've been riding them. Archeological evidence suggests that we first domesticated horses on the grasslands of Central Asia almost 6,000 ...

Likewise, new techniques for recovering ancient proteins from human dental plaque have shown no evidence of horse milk in the ...

So despite the key role horses have played in shaping human history, until now little was known about where and when they were first domesticated. To pinpoint the domestic horse’s genetic origins, a ...

But Taylor says it’s what happened about 4,000 years ago that really changed things. That’s when people living in the grasslands near the Black Sea first domesticated horses. And when that happened, ...

The first steps towards domesticating the horse were taken north of the Caucasus in the late 4th millennium BC. Using horses made it possible to roam greater areas and tend larger herds.

For the first time, people used animals not only as part of the meat diet but also for dairy products. In the Bronze Age, this undoubtedly gave an advantage to migrants. The article also answers the ...