This also promoted cultural exchange, including the spread of Indo-European languages, religions, science, and art ( Kelekna 2009 Anthony 2010). Unlike other ungulates, horses were not only used as a source of meat and milk, but their stamina and speed also revolutionized warfare and transportation. 2009), at a considerable spatial and temporal distance from the Anatolian domestication centers for sheep and goats ( Zeder et al.
This evidence is given by the ∼5500-year-old archaeological site of Botai (modern-day Kazakhstan) ( Outram et al. THE history of the domestication of the horse remains enigmatic in several aspects due to the absence of clear morphological and osteological differences between wild and early domestic individuals, but also due to the scarcity of paleontological records from some key periods, especially the one preceding the earliest evidence of domestication.
