Every now and then on the Internet, people will ask the question, "If we ride around on horses, why aren't we galloping around on zebras too?" It's a silly thought, but it's actually pretty interesting to go into. First off, how and when did humans domesticate horses? The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

We have not always been such good friends with the horse, and in prehistoric times would hunt them down for meat rather than view them as transportation. But at some point in our history, humans began to domesticate the animal, beginning a world-changing era of migration across the Eurasian continent.

For a long time the most-favored model for domestication by archaeozoologists was known as the "Kurgan hypothesis". In the K

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