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

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 ...

The researchers analyzed DNA from the remains and identified a “domestication center” in modern-day Russia. The DNA also revealed gene variations that may have given these horses important ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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, ...