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The search for the cradle of horse domestication goes on

September 20, 2020 Horsetalk.co.nz 2061 Views 0 Comments History

Testing of ancient DNA largely rules out Asia Minor, according to researchers, who suggest the focus should be on the Black Sea region.

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Mahmoud painting by Sir Alfred Munnings up for auction

September 18, 2020October 9, 2020 Horsetalk.co.nz 2611 Views 0 Comments

Painting of 1936 Derby winner Mahmoud among works from the collection of the Aga Khan to be sold in Paris.

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A Lippitt Morgan stallion.
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Morgan horse breed’s famous founder memorialised

August 27, 2020August 31, 2020 Horsetalk.co.nz 3136 Views 0 Comments History

Historical marker to be unveiled following a long search to find Justin Morgan’s original home in Vermont.

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Earliest known art in British Isles included horse depictions – study

August 21, 2020 Horsetalk.co.nz 3366 Views 0 Comments History

“The engraved stones are firmly domestic art – this may have been important as people moved back into northern Europe towards the end of the last Ice Age.”

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How we found Europe’s oldest bone tools – and what we learned about their makers

August 18, 2020August 18, 2020 Matt Pope 2261 Views 0 Comments History

The importance of the so-called “Horse Butchery Site” in England, inhabited by humans nearly 500,000 years ago, is explained by archaeologist Matt Pope.

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Horse butchered 480,000 years ago helps unravel the lives of extinct humans

August 17, 2020 Horsetalk.co.nz 2646 Views 0 Comments History

The team worked with a reconstruction artist to bring the site and its social complexity to life.

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Historic find in Scotland provides insights into use of horse harness 3000 years ago

August 16, 2020August 21, 2020 Horsetalk.co.nz 2858 Views 1 Comment History

Archaeologists traced the remaining outlines of leather straps attached to the metal harness components, providing insights into how the harness was employed.

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The art of the farrier showcased in new photographic book

August 15, 2020August 21, 2020 Horsetalk.co.nz 2461 Views 0 Comments

“The Farrier” is the “culmination of a 10-year project with one purpose: to share joy and pride for the craft of farriery”.

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Sixteenth-century English books on horsemanship

July 27, 2020 Charles Caramello 2951 Views 0 Comments

Though Early Modern British horsemen, like generations of their descendants, preferred hunting to schooling, “manège riding,” “had been practiced at the English court since the early sixteenth century”.

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Warriors on horseback arose on the Eurasian steppe no later than 1600BC – study

July 15, 2020July 20, 2020 Horsetalk.co.nz 3112 Views 0 Comments History

The remains of two horses found in a burial mound in Kazakhstan reveal important insights into early horsemen.

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Paola’s ride for peace crosses two continents

July 2, 2020July 12, 2020 CuChullaine O’Reilly 3570 Views 3 Comments

Paola Giacomini overcame a raft of challenges during her 15-month journey in the saddle.

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A horseback ride into the unknown: An ocean to ocean Eurasian adventure

June 28, 2020July 12, 2020 Horsetalk.co.nz 3922 Views 0 Comments

Nikita Gretsi plans to ride from Russia’s Pacific coast, across Sibera, to the Atlantic coast of Europe, then on to London.

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Horse manure an unlikely ally in unmasking art forgeries

June 14, 2020June 19, 2020 Horsetalk.co.nz 3912 Views 0 Comments History

“Absolute dating of paintings that contain inorganic pigments has been achieved,” the study team concluded.

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Cavaliers: Block II from the west frieze of the Parthenon, ca. 447–433 BC.
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Rereading Xenophon’s “On Horsemanship”

June 8, 2020June 8, 2020 Charles Caramello 4284 Views 0 Comments History

Whatever one’s discipline or its tutelary giants, rereading Xenophon of Athens, the celebrated horseman from classical antiquity, always repays the effort.

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Perfectly preserved wooden saddle is nearly 1700 years old

May 31, 2020 Horsetalk.co.nz 16174 Views 4 Comments History

Researchers describe the Mongolia saddle as completely preserved.

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The welfare of donkeys and their owners in the brick kiln industry in India has been highlighted in a scientific article published in Frontiers in Veterinary Science.
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Attention for “one health” approach for working equines and their owners

May 18, 2020June 2, 2020 Horsetalk.co.nz 3623 Views 0 Comments

A research article that highlights the link between the welfare of working equids and the wellbeing of their owners has received a significant endorsement through its acceptance by peer-reviewed scientific journal ‘Frontiers in Veterinary Science’.

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Stunning Roman-era horse brooch unearthed in England

April 30, 2020 Horsetalk.co.nz 4157 Views 1 Comment History

“The horse would have originally appeared gold-like and the recesses probably once contained bright red, blue or yellow enamel. It would have been a spectacular sight on someone’s robe.”

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When the ice melted, large amounts of horse dung emerged from the high mountain pass over Lendbreen in Breheimen, in Norway.
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Centuries old Norwegian mountain track that emerged from ice is still littered with horse dung

April 21, 2020April 22, 2020 Horsetalk.co.nz 4872 Views 2 Comments History

Ancient mountain pass was a veritable horse highway.

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Evidence found of horseman’s early, complex brain surgery in Ancient Greece

April 18, 2020 Horsetalk.co.nz 3853 Views 0 Comments History

“The surgical operation is the most complex I have ever seen in my 40 years of working with anthropological materials.”

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Mysterious bone circles reveal clues about Ice Age life

March 23, 2020 Horsetalk.co.nz 5503 Views 0 Comments History

“Archaeology is showing us more about how our ancestors survived in this desperately cold and hostile environment at the climax of the last ice age.”

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