When and how people domesticated #horses has long posed an archeological mystery.

Over the past 20 years, data seemed to converge on the idea that horses were first domesticated in sites of the Botai culture in Kazakhstan, where scientists found large quantities of horse bones at sites dating to the fourth millennium BCE. But now, new analyses suggest revising this long-standing hypothesis for how humans domesticated horses.

https://theconversation.com/domesticating-horses-226800
#science #history #archaeology