HORSE POWER | E02 | The Early History of Horses and Humans
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Horses have been essential to human societies for thousands of years. Their origins trace back to the evolution of equines and specifically, the wild horses that roamed the North American continent before the Ice Age. While the horses became extinct in the Americas due to the glacial period, many had earlier escaped through the now submerged Bering land bridge into Eurasia, and populated the vast Eurasian steppes. After the melting of glaciers the global temperatures rose, and new vast grasslands emerged providing ample territories for grazing across the Steppe. Humans had already been hunting horses over the glacial period, yet domestication would follow much later in the Early Bronze Age.
HORSE POWER | E02 | The Early History of Horses and Humans
HORSE POWER | E02 | The Early History of…
HORSE POWER | E02 | The Early History of Horses and Humans
Horses have been essential to human societies for thousands of years. Their origins trace back to the evolution of equines and specifically, the wild horses that roamed the North American continent before the Ice Age. While the horses became extinct in the Americas due to the glacial period, many had earlier escaped through the now submerged Bering land bridge into Eurasia, and populated the vast Eurasian steppes. After the melting of glaciers the global temperatures rose, and new vast grasslands emerged providing ample territories for grazing across the Steppe. Humans had already been hunting horses over the glacial period, yet domestication would follow much later in the Early Bronze Age.