Science News, June 2nd, 1990
Dental Exam Corrals Early Equestrians
An archaeologist looked a gift horse in the mouth and walked away with the first solid evidence that humans domesticated and rode horses about 6,000 years ago, much earlier than estimated by many researchers in the United States and Europe.
"Horseback riding was the first significant innovation in human land transport, preceding the invention of the wheel by approximately 500 years," David W. Anthony of Hartwick College in Oneonta, N.Y., told SCIENCE NEWS.
Scientists often place the initial domestication of horses at around 4,000 years ago in Eurasia,...
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