Mystery about domestication of horse has been unravelled
Friday, April 24, 2009 - 15:00
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Wild horses were domesticated in the Ponto-Caspian steppe region (today Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Romania) in the 3rd millennium B.C. Despite the pivotal role horses have played in the history of human societies, the process of their domestication is not well understood. In a new study published in the scientific journal Science the jointed analysis of German researchers from the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin, the German Archaeological Institute, the Humboldt University Berlin, the Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig in cooperation with American and Spanish scientists unravelled the mystery about domestication of horse...
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