The first domesticated horses: 6,000 years of a complex story
May 18, 2026
May 18, 2026
HELSINKI, Finland, May 18 -- The University of Helsinki issued the following news release:
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The first domesticated horses: 6,000 years of a complex story
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Taming and domestication were not single events. They were a slow, stop-start process, full of setbacks, playing out over generations and across vast regions, before full domestication set in shortly before 2000 BCE.
"Horses were already being used in sophisticated, wi . . .
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The first domesticated horses: 6,000 years of a complex story
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Taming and domestication were not single events. They were a slow, stop-start process, full of setbacks, playing out over generations and across vast regions, before full domestication set in shortly before 2000 BCE.
"Horses were already being used in sophisticated, wi . . .