Domestication of the horse | 台北市立動物園資訊網

SomeofthemostintriguingevidenceofearlydomesticationcomesfromtheBotaiculture,foundinnorthernKazakhstan.TheBotaiculturewasacultureofforagers​ ...

Process of domesticating equines

A number of hypotheses exist on many of the key issues regarding the domestication of the horse. Although horses appeared in Paleolithic cave art as early as 30,000 BCE, these were wild horses and were probably hunted for meat.

How and when horses became domesticated has been disputed. The clearest evidence of early use of the horse as a means of transport is from chariot burials dated c. 2000 BCE.[1][2] However, an increasing amount of evidence began to support the hypothesis that horses were domesticated in the Eurasian Steppes in approximately 3500 BCE.[3][4] Discoveries in the context of the Botai culture had suggested that Botai settlements in the Akmola Province of Kazakhstan are the location of the earliest domestication of the horse.[5] Warmouth et al. (2012) pointed to horses having been domesticated around 3,0...