Study solves mystery of horse domestication

Monday, May 7, 2012 - 14:00 in Paleontology & Archaeology

New research indicates that domestic horses originated in the steppes of modern-day Ukraine, southwest Russia and west Kazakhstan, mixing with local wild stocks as they spread throughout Europe and Asia. The research was published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

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