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Joel Kontinen
“Humans domesticated horses 1,000 years later than
previously thought, first for access to their meat and milk and then for their
transportation capabilities, a new study of ancient horse DNA suggests. “
A new study shows that hrses were domesticated around
2200 B.C.
The study analysed
475 ancient horse genomes tin he journal Nature and found out that the
horses were not tied to he migration of people across Europe thousands of years ago.
2004 Humans didn't domesticate horses until 4,200 years ago — a millennium later than thought | Live Science 6 June.
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