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…