PBS Eons: How Horses Went from Food to Friends

 

PBS Eons has a new episode.  This one is about the domestication of horses.

Do our modern horses descend from just one domesticated population, or did it happen many times, in many places? Answering these questions has been tricky, as we’ve needed to bring together evidence from art, archaeology, and ancient DNA…Because, as it turns out, the history of humans and horses has been a pretty wild ride.

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