Horses kept for 5,500 years
Origins of horse domestication have been traced back to the fourth millennium BC.
The origins of horse domestication have been traced back around 5,500 years to the Botai Culture of Kazakhstan and the fourth millennium BC. This is about 1,000 years earlier than previously thought, and about 2,000 years before horses are known to have been kept in Europe.
Exeter University has said that the findings could point to the very beginnings of horse domestication and the origins of the horse breeds we know today. The research has been published in the academic journal Science.
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