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3 kwi 2023 · After examining archaeological remains of horses, researchers suggest Indigenous peoples had spread the animals through the American West by the first half of the 1600s—before they encountered ...
- Native American History
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- Native American History
27 kwi 2020 · In the official narrative, America’s original horses “went extinct” thousands of years ago, killed off by the frigid temperatures of the last Ice Age. Horses that live in the Americas today, claim historians, are descendants of those first brought by European explorers and settlers in the early 16th century.
8 sie 2022 · Horses pranced around the western hemisphere until they went extinct in the late Holocene. They were reintroduced by European colonists — though where, when, and how has remained unclear.
3 lip 2019 · The Western World concluded that all horses of Native American peoples were, therefore, descendants of horses brought from overseas. This theory was forced to change, however, after paleontology pioneer Joseph Leidy discovered horse skeletons embedded in American soil in the 1830s.
27 mar 2024 · In fact, recent research has confirmed a European origin for horses associated with humans in the American Southwest and Great Plains. But those weren’t the first horses in North America.
30 mar 2023 · Horses evolved millions of years ago in North America and, after spreading to Eurasia and Africa, went extinct in their homeland at the end of the last ice age. Spanish and British colonizers brought them back.
1 mar 2024 · The ancestors of modern horses evolved in the Americas, spread to the rest of the world, and it's thought they were eventually domesticated in Central Asia.
