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Horses remained an integral part of American rural and urban life until the 20th century, when the widespread emergence of mechanization caused their use for industrial, economic, and transportation purposes to decline.
3 kwi 2023 · Horses evolved in the Americas around four million years ago, but by about 10,000 years ago, they had mostly disappeared from the fossil record, per the Conversation. Spanish settlers...
11 sie 2020 · Some 10,000 years ago, the horse was entirely wiped out from the American continent, and they were reintroduced by Spanish conquistadors to America in the 1490s. What's so fascinating is that we...
27 lip 2022 · Identifying and analyzing one of the oldest archaeological specimens of domesticated horse in the Western Hemisphere, this study confirms the theory that the first modern horses in the Americas came from the Iberian Peninsula.
25 lut 2022 · Ancient horses roamed the North American continent for millions of years. And many, many years later, horses played an integral role in building the foundation of the United States. However,...
13 cze 2024 · While wild horses are believed to have evolved in North America tens of millions of years ago and died out around 10,000 years ago, this new evidence supports the idea that horses were integrated into Great Plains societies before European contact.
30 mar 2023 · Horses first emerged on the continent of North America. Millions of years of evolutionary changes transformed the horse before it became the natural companion of many Indigenous peoples and the flagship symbol of the southwest.
