Revisiting Horse Domestication: New Findings Push Date 1,000 Years Later
Ancient DNA Reveals Horses Were First Domesticated Around 2200 B.C., Overturning Previous Estimates
The New Timeline of Horse Domestication
Recent research1 has upended previous assumptions about the domestication of horses, revealing that humans first domesticated these animals around 2200 B.C., a full millennium later than traditionally believed. This finding emerges from a comprehensive study of ancient horse DNA, which sheds new light on the timelin…
