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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.
3 kwi 2023 · Spanish settlers likely first brought horses back to the Americas in 1519, when Hernán Cortés arrived on the continent in Mexico. Per the new paper, Indigenous peoples then transported horses...
30 mar 2023 · Combined, these phylogenetic reconstructions portray historic and modern North American horses as mainly descending from domestic bloodlines that started spreading outside their native area of the Don-Volga region no earlier than 4200 years ago .
30 mar 2023 · Direct radiocarbon dating of discoveries ranging from southern Idaho to southwestern Wyoming and northern Kansas showed that horses were present across much of the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains ...
30 mar 2023 · 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. An international team...
30 mar 2023 · A team of international researchers has dug into archaeological records, DNA evidence and Indigenous oral traditions to paint what might be the most exhaustive history of early horses in...
The limitations of the Euro-American historical record in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century North America parallel challenges in understanding early human-horse relations in prehistoric Eurasia, where zooarchaeology has proven to be a valuable source of data about the early stages of horse domestication, management, and use.
