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Remarkable depictions of ancient South American horses found in “Sistine Chapel of the ancients”

December 25, 2020 Horsetalk.co.nz 2475 Views 0 Comments History

“The ice-age horse had a wild, heavy face. It’s so detailed, we can even see the horse hair. It’s fascinating.”

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Climate change destroyed river civilisations, not Genghis Khan’s horsemen – study

December 24, 2020December 29, 2020 Horsetalk.co.nz 2399 Views 0 Comments History

“Our research shows that it was climate change, not Genghis Khan, that was the ultimate cause for the demise of Central Asia’s forgotten river civilizations.”

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Swiss showjumper Alphonse Gemuseus, riding Lucette, won individual gold at team silver at the 1924 Olympic Games.
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Horse sport’s place at Paris 2024 Olympics confirmed by IOC

December 8, 2020January 14, 2021 Horsetalk.co.nz 1357 Views 0 Comments History, Olympics 2024

Dressage, showjumping and eventing at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games will take place in Versailles with a full quota of 200 horses and riders.

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Horse bones in demand for ice skates in medieval Poland, research shows

December 6, 2020December 11, 2020 Horsetalk.co.nz 2134 Views 0 Comments History

“Horses, unlike other domestic animals, usually lived to old age. However, after their death, there was no hesitation in using their remains.”

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Fossils in India support new hypothesis for origins of hoofed mammals, including horses

November 8, 2020 Horsetalk.co.nz 17025 Views 0 Comments History

Findings provide insights into the controversial question of where hoofed animals evolved.

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From A General System of Horsemanship (1743).
Culture Latest News 

William Cavendish: An English Giant of French Dressage

September 21, 2020September 22, 2020 Charles Caramello 3853 Views 2 Comments History

François Robichon de la Guérinière invoked Cavendish in the immensely influential 18th-century treatise École de Cavalerie (1733) as “the greatest expert of his age in the matter of horses.”

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The search for the cradle of horse domestication goes on

September 20, 2020 Horsetalk.co.nz 2031 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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Breeding Latest News 

Do the bloodlines of extinct Ice Age horses live on in Yakutian horses?

September 12, 2020September 16, 2020 Horsetalk.co.nz 5350 Views 0 Comments History, Rare breeds

Many researchers stick to the hypothesis that Yakutian horses come from ancient crossbreed wild horses from the north.

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A Lippitt Morgan stallion.
Culture News 

Morgan horse breed’s famous founder memorialised

August 27, 2020August 31, 2020 Horsetalk.co.nz 3058 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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Features Latest News 

A 48-million-year-old ancestral horse like you’ve never seen before

August 23, 2020 Horsetalk.co.nz 3772 Views 0 Comments History

Scientists create a life-like reconstruction of Propalaeotherium voigti, and painstakingly recreate its skeleton.

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Culture Latest News 

Earliest known art in British Isles included horse depictions – study

August 21, 2020 Horsetalk.co.nz 3329 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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Culture Latest News 

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

August 18, 2020August 18, 2020 Matt Pope 2234 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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Culture Latest News 

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

August 17, 2020 Horsetalk.co.nz 2624 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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Culture Latest News 

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

August 16, 2020August 21, 2020 Horsetalk.co.nz 2841 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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Eadweard Muybridge's jumping horse picture series.
Education & Entertainment 

A real puzzler: Muybridge’s jumping horse made into jigsaw

August 7, 2020 Horsetalk.co.nz 2297 Views 0 Comments History

Eadweard Muybridge’s jumping horse photographic sequence has been made into an online jigsaw puzzle.

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Culture News 

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

July 15, 2020July 20, 2020 Horsetalk.co.nz 2945 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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Latest News Training 

Gender bias toward male horses goes back nearly 4000 years – study

July 8, 2020 Horsetalk.co.nz 2463 Views 0 Comments History

This gender bias became entrenched around the start of the Bronze Age to a startling degree.

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Culture News 

Horse manure an unlikely ally in unmasking art forgeries

June 14, 2020June 19, 2020 Horsetalk.co.nz 3843 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.
Culture Latest News 

Rereading Xenophon’s “On Horsemanship”

June 8, 2020June 8, 2020 Charles Caramello 4137 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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Culture Latest News 

Perfectly preserved wooden saddle is nearly 1700 years old

May 31, 2020 Horsetalk.co.nz 16108 Views 4 Comments History

Researchers describe the Mongolia saddle as completely preserved.

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