ACBS 160D1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 42: Eurasian Steppe, Wild Horse, Horse Meat
16 Nov 2016
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The paleolithic (~20,000) site of solutre in france. Hunter-gatherer horse kill site (cul-de-sac) for thousands of years. More than 80,000 horses killed there before 18,000 bp. Horse meat high in polyunsaturated fats (in cold climate, people consume a lot for fat) Micro-tooth analysis shows horses killed during spring-summer-autumn) ~20,000 bp hunter-gatherers hunted horse (kill site) ~7,000 bp pre-domestication-huner and used as pack animals - meat etc. ~6,000 bp track to become fully domesticated. The distribution of wild horse populations around the time of domestication in northern. Horses tend to be more common in area of cold winters with high precipitation - their natural ecology. Horses do well in some environments (cold, break through ice) and not others (tropical) Modeling of genetic data collected from modern populations from localities throughout northern eurasia identifies the origin of horse domestication in the western eurasian steppe (temperate grassland)
