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A difficult question is if domesticated horses were first ridden or driven. While the most unequivocal evidence shows horses first being used to pull chariots in warfare, there is strong, though indirect, evidence for riding occurring first, particularly by the Botai.
The history of horse domestication has been subject to much debate, with various competing hypotheses over time about how domestication of the horse occurred. The main point of contention was whether the domestication of the horse occurred once in a single domestication event, or that the horse was domesticated independently multiple times.
Extinct equids restored to scale. Left to right: Mesohippus, Neohipparion, Eohippus, Equus scotti and Hypohippus. Wild horses have been known since prehistory from central Asia to Europe, with domestic horses and other equids being distributed more widely in the Old World, but no horses or equids of any type were found in the New World when European explorers reached the Americas.
The genomic evidence showed that horses were first domesticated in Central Asia - northern Kazakhstan to be precise - about 5,500 years ago by people from what is called the Botai culture. But ...
There were about 3.3 million horses in late Victorian Britain. [104] In 1900 about a million of these were working horses, [105] and in 1914 between 20,000 and 25,000 horses were utilised as cavalry in WWI. [106] Six-horse Royal Horse Artillery team with 13-pounder cannon at speed, World War I
[153] [154] [155] However the horses domesticated at the Botai culture in Kazakhstan were Przewalski's horses and not the ancestors of modern horses. [ 156 ] [ 157 ] By 3000 BCE, the horse was completely domesticated and by 2000 BCE there was a sharp increase in the number of horse bones found in human settlements in northwestern Europe ...
“Horses have been part of us since long before other cultures came to our lands, and we are a part of them,” a Lakota chief said. Horses were part of North America before the Europeans arrived ...
Horse bones may also be rare because horses were probably not eaten or used in burials by the Harappans. [ 15 ] [ 16 ] Remains and artifacts ascribed to domesticated horses are limited to Late Harappan times [ 17 ] [ 5 ] [ note 10 ] indicating that horses may have been present at Late Harappan times, [ 3 ] "when the Vedic people had settled in ...