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Horse domestication pushed back to 9000 years ago
August 26, 2011
Evidence has been found that pushes back horse domestication by another
3500 years, Saudi officials report.
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Several of the objects recently unearthed at Al-Maqar.
The head of Saudi Arabia's
antiquities agency says
evidence unearthed at a
site at Al-Maqar pushes
horse domestication back
to 9000 years ago.
Previous research,
published in 2009, put the
earliest evidence of horse
domestication at 5500
years ago, in Kazakhstan.
Researchers found
evidence that the Botai
culture based there bred
horses not only for riding,
Prince Sultan bin Salman, president of the Saudi Commission for Tourism
and Antiquities (SCTA) said of the Al-Maqar findings: "These antiquities
proved that the Al-Maqar site, in the heart of Saudi Arabia, was the oldest
place in the world so far with people with domesticated horses."
The discoveries also cast light on the cultural activities of people in the
region during the Stone Age, he said.
"The results of the excavation show that taking care of horses has been an
old tradition inherited by Muslims from their forefathers," he said.
"There is no wonder that during the time of Prophet Mohammed and the
Caliphs, special areas had been allocated for breeding and rearing horses."
Professor Ali Al-Ghabban, vice president of SCTA for antiquities and
museums, said the agency began excavations in Al-Maqar after receiving
information about the area from a resident last year.
He said DNA and carbon-dating tests proved that the artifacts found
during the excavation were 9000 years old. In all, the team had found 80
valuable artifacts from the area.
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excavation.
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