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When were horses domesticated?
New evidence suggests the humans first domesticated equines 9,000
years ago.
September 7, 2011
Archaeologists in Saudi Arabia
reported finding traces of a
civilization that had domesticated
horses nearly 9,000 years ago.
Previous findings showed the
possibility of the earliest
domestication of horses
approximately 5,500 years ago in
what is now Kazakhstan.
In August, Ali al-Ghabban, an
official from the Saudi
Commission for Tourism & Antiquities announced the discovery,
saying it would, "change our knowledge concerning the domestication
of horses and the evolution of culture in the late Neolithic period."
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Fossils of horses were found at the al-Maqar site, along with statues
of statues of animals, including dogs and horses. Archaeologists at
the site reportedly also found arrowheads, tools for weaving, grain
grinders and other artifacts. Carbon dating on the artifacts dated them
to around 7,000 B.C.
Presently, the oldest undisputed evidence of horse domestication date
back to 2,000 B.C., when horses were buried with parts of harnesses
and chariots. A report published March 2009 suggested the Botai
culture of Kazakhstan had domesticated horses as beasts of burden
and to use their milk as a food source around 3500 B.C.
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