
10/04/2025
When humans began to charge across plains and mountains on the sleek backs of horses, it changed the course of history. The earliest definitive evidence of equestrianism dates to 4,000 years ago: In the Ural Mountains of Russia, archaeologists unearthed the remains of bridles and chariots. But some scholars say humans began relying on horses for transport a couple of millennia earlier than that, in the Eurasian steppes near the Black Sea. Regardless of when this horse-human bond first emerged, it soon promoted the sharing of culture, language, and commerce between people from distant lands and transformed agriculture and warfare....
When humans began to charge across plains and mountains on the sleek backs of horses, it changed the course of history. The earliest definitive evidence of equestrianism dates to 4,000 years ago: …