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Genetic testing suggests horse domestication did not begin in Anatolia

By Thomas A. Smith

An international team of researchers has found via genetic testing that horse domestication very likely did not begin in Anatolia as has been thought. Instead, it appears more likely that horses were first domesticated in the Eurasian Steppe and were subsequently imported to both the Caucasus and Anatolia. In their paper published in the journal Science Advances, the group describes their exhaustive study of ancient horse remains from a host of locations in eastern parts of Asia, the Caucasus and Anatolia.

via phys.org

Ah. It is good. Honor the ancestors!

Originally published at therightcoastblog.com

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Thomas A. Smith, Genetic testing suggests horse domestication did not begin in Anatolia, The Right Coast (September 20, 2020) [The Library at LexBlog, LEX-WK-NRW8GHWF, lexpid.org/NRW8GHWF]

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