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Saudi officials say archaeologists have begun excavating a site that suggests<br />
horses were domesticated 9,000 years ago in the Arabian Peninsula.<br />
The vice-president of the Saudi Commission for Tourism and Antiquities said<br />
the discovery at al-Maqar challenged the theory it first took place 5,500 years<br />
ago in Central Asia.<br />
Ali al-Ghabban said it also changed what was known about the evolution of<br />
culture in the late Neolithic period.<br />
A number of artefacts were also found.<br />
They included arrowheads, scrapers, grain grinders, tools for spinning and<br />
weaving, and other tools that showed the inhabitants were skilled at<br />
handicrafts.<br />
Mr Ghabban said carbon-14 tests on the artefacts, as well as DNA tests on<br />
human remains also found there, dated them to about 7,000 BC....<br />
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