{"id":26105,"date":"2009-03-05T12:45:58","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T12:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/03\/05\/is-horse-domestication-earlier\/"},"modified":"2009-03-05T12:45:58","modified_gmt":"2009-03-05T12:45:58","slug":"is-horse-domestication-earlier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/05\/is-horse-domestication-earlier\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Horse Domestication Earlier than Previously Thought?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>It is a long way from Kazakhstan to Kentucky, but the journey to the Derby may have started among a pastoral people on the Kazakh steppes who appear to have been the first to domesticate, bridle and perhaps ride horses &#8212; around 3500 B.C., a millennium earlier than previously thought.<\/p>\n<p>Archaeologists say the discovery may revise thinking about the development of some preagricultural Eurasian societies and put an earlier date to their dispersal into Europe and elsewhere. These migrations are believed to have been associated with horse domestication and the spread of Indo-European languages&#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/03\/06\/science\/06horses.html?_r=1&#038;partner=rss&#038;emc=rss\"><br \/>\nContinued here. <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciam.com\/blog\/60-second-science\/post.cfm?id=first-domesticated-horses-in-centra-2009-03-05\">See also this as Scientific American<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is a long way from Kazakhstan to Kentucky, but the journey to the Derby may have started among a pastoral people on the Kazakh steppes who appear to have been the first to domesticate, bridle and perhaps ride horses &#8212; around 3500 B.C., a millennium earlier than previously thought. Archaeologists say the discovery may &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/05\/is-horse-domestication-earlier\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is Horse Domestication Earlier than Previously Thought?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6N3","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26105"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}