A new study found people started using horses to get around as early as 4,500 to 5,000 years ago. Researchers looked at human skeletal remains for small signs of the physical stress associated with horseback riding.
A new study of ancient human remains finds that horse riding may have been common as early as 4,500 to 5,000 years ago.A new study of ancient human remains finds that horse riding may have been common as early as 4,500 to 5,000 years ago.Horseback riding was likely a common activity as early as 4,500 to 5,000 years ago, according to a provocative new study that looked at human skeletal remains for small signs of the physical stress associated with riding horses.
"Cattle and sheep and goats were domesticated thousands of years before horses were. And horses are different from cattle and sheep and goats, in that they are essentially a transportation technology," saysHorses began living with humans before the invention of the wheel, and horse-drawn chariots first appeared around 4,000 years ago. About a thousand years later, there's an explosion of horses and horse-related themes depicted in artwork.
"My wife and I have looked at museum collections for horse remains and been very disappointed on Kazakhstan, Russia, Ukraine, Hungary," he says, noting that the Eurasian steppe was where wild horses lived and were available to be domesticated.with the University of Exeter, is that"what you've demonstrated is harnessing. You haven't specifically demonstrated riding."
Specifically, they went searching for human skeletal remains with features that could come from the kinds of physical stress associated with horseback riding, especially bareback riding that requires the legs to keep a firm grip.
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