Comments on: Is Horse Domestication Earlier than Previously Thought? https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/03/05/is-horse-domestication-earlier/ Fri, 06 Mar 2009 11:10:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: AK https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/03/05/is-horse-domestication-earlier/#comment-532088 Fri, 06 Mar 2009 11:10:47 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/03/05/is-horse-domestication-earlier/#comment-532088 I seem to recall from J. P. Mallory’s In Search of the Indo-Europeans that the Sredny Stog culture (c. 4,500-3,500 B.C.E.) showed some evidence of horse domestication, e.g. at Dereivka:

An area of over 2,000 square metres was apparently bordered by some form of fence which enclosed several houses, work places and areas of ritual activity. […] Antler cheekpieces for fixing the bit in the horse’s mouth are known from Dereivka and other Sredny Stog sites. (p. 199)

I also vaguely remember (in the same book) some ambiguous (and disputed) claims putting horse domestication back to 6000 BCE, although I can’t call the details to mind at the moment.

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