Wild Iberian horses contributed to origin of current Iberian domestic stock

Thursday, January 7, 2010 - 12:35 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Some modern horses of Iberian origin are descendants from wild horses from the Early Iberian Neolithic, dated around 6,200 years ago. Ancient lineages are mainly represented in the Lusitano group C, constituted by some modern Lusitano and American horses.

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