Early dispersal of domestic horses into the Great Plains and northern Rockies
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Published in Science · View the paper (DOI)
A team of international researchers has uncovered a more complex history of early horses in North America, suggesting they may have spread faster and earlier than previously thought. The study, published in Science, used archaeozoology, DNA sequencing, and Indigenous oral traditions to find that Native American communities were likely ...
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- New, exhaustive study probes hidden history of horses in the American West University of Colorado at Boulder · Mar 30, 2023 · first to report
- *Free* Indigenous cultures adopted horses of primarily Spanish origin before Europeans arrived in the American Great Plains and northern Rockies American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) · Mar 30, 2023
- The untold history of the horse in the American plains University of Oklahoma · Mar 31, 2023