Mystery about domestication of horse has been unravelled -- now location and time are proofed

Thursday, April 23, 2009 - 13:21 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Wild horses were domesticated in the Ponto-Caspian steppe region (today Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Romania) in the 3rd millennium B.C. Despite the pivotal role horses have played in the history of human societies, the process of their domestication is not well understood.

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