Tracing how horse domestication turned the Eurasian Steppe into a highway
Domesticated horses reshaped Central Asia, but where did they come from?
Kiona N. Smith - 5/11/2018, 12:55 PM
From Neanderthals to human hunter-gatherers to the mounted horde of Genghis Khan, the Eurasian Steppe has long been a crossroads of humanity. And for the last 5,000 years or so, domesticated horses have shaped how people moved through, lived in, and dominated that vast grassland stretching from Hungary and Romania to Northeastern China. A paleogenomic study adds new evidence to the debate about where people first domesticated horses, and a related study reveals the impact of horsemanship on the peopling of the steppe.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/05/tracing-how-horse-domestication-turned-the-eurasian-steppe-into-a-highway/
