It’s really crazy how much we can learn through humans’ and animals’ history through different genetic studies and archaeological research. The study below shows that horse domestication began many years ago during the iron age, more than 5500 years ago. 13 samples were found in Kazakhstan, Russia, and Mongolian. The main activities were riding and milking them.
Also, they became really helpful in transportation, allowing humans to move faster, connect to vast territories and develop advanced warfare. Since then, horse domestication has had a huge role in society. With the development reached today compared to that time, a horse’s strength isn’t as important as it was before, they are trained for different activities than back then.
It’s crazy how much everything has changed from ancient history until now. All the main historical periods, antiquity, medieval, modern and contemporary history are completely different worlds from each other, however, horses have always been good companions to the owners since then.
If we talk about horse evolution, even earlier than the antiquity and the fossils found underground, a horse’s body structure has evolved over time, just the same as us. Well, I would really like to know how much will our world change in the very distant future.