Remarkable depictions of ancient South American horses found in “Sistine Chapel of the ancients”
“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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History
Climate change destroyed river civilisations, not Genghis Khan’s horsemen – study
“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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Horse sport’s place at Paris 2024 Olympics confirmed by IOC
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
“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
Findings provide insights into the controversial question of where hoofed animals evolved.
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William Cavendish: An English Giant of French Dressage
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
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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Do the bloodlines of extinct Ice Age horses live on in Yakutian horses?
Many researchers stick to the hypothesis that Yakutian horses come from ancient crossbreed wild horses from the north.
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Morgan horse breed’s famous founder memorialised
Historical marker to be unveiled following a long search to find Justin Morgan’s original home in Vermont.
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A 48-million-year-old ancestral horse like you’ve never seen before
Scientists create a life-like reconstruction of Propalaeotherium voigti, and painstakingly recreate its skeleton.
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Earliest known art in British Isles included horse depictions – study
“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
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
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
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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A real puzzler: Muybridge’s jumping horse made into jigsaw
Eadweard Muybridge’s jumping horse photographic sequence has been made into an online jigsaw puzzle.
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Warriors on horseback arose on the Eurasian steppe no later than 1600BC – study
The remains of two horses found in a burial mound in Kazakhstan reveal important insights into early horsemen.
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Gender bias toward male horses goes back nearly 4000 years – study
This gender bias became entrenched around the start of the Bronze Age to a startling degree.
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Horse manure an unlikely ally in unmasking art forgeries
“Absolute dating of paintings that contain inorganic pigments has been achieved,” the study team concluded.
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Rereading Xenophon’s “On Horsemanship”
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
Researchers describe the Mongolia saddle as completely preserved.
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