- New research indicates that humans began using horses over a thousand years earlier than previously thought, with taming efforts occurring independently around 3500 to 3000 BCE.
- Scientists from the University of Helsinki utilised DNA, archaeological, and bone records to re-evaluate the timeline of human-horse interaction.
- The study suggests that horse taming was a slow, stop-start process across various regions, rather than a singular event leading to full domestication.
- Early horsemanship is believed to have facilitated the significant mass migration of the Yamnaya people across Eurasia around 3100 BCE.
- This rapid expansion, aided by horses, helped disseminate populations, technologies like the wheel, and potentially the earliest Indo-European languages across the continent.
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