Wild Iberian horses contributed to the origin of the current Iberian domestic stock
Monday, January 11, 2010 - 12:07
in Paleontology & Archaeology
The earliest known domestic horses are around 4,600 years old. They were originated in the steppes between modern Ukraine and Kazakhstan. Using this evidence, two different hypotheses have been suggested: 1) domestic horses spread from this area over the rest of Eurasia; 2) horse domestication was a multiregional process, having occurred several times in different local places...