Re: horses

From: John Croft
Message: 4208
Date: 2000-10-10

Hi Gerry

Good to see you here. Thanks for the post from Alekseev. Just one
thing

Re
> An early relief in Iraq which dates to
> the third millennium BC, depicts the horse as a loading animal.

There has been some discssion about this find elsewhere. Nowadays it
is generally agreed that it was a domesticated onager, a species of
donkey, now thought to be extinct.

Regards

John