Horses first ridden - and milked - 5,500 years ago
Thursday, March 5, 2009 - 14:35
in Paleontology & Archaeology
LONDON (Reuters) - Horses were first domesticated on the plains of northern Kazakhstan some 5,500 years ago -- 1,000 years earlier than thought -- by people who rode them and drank their milk, researchers said on Thursday.
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