Re: [tied] Re: horses

I gather there are some problems with the Dereivka horses. They seem to be secondary depositions. I've not see anything lately, but this would seem to put the earliest archaeological context for *domestic* horses back to the Volga region.

From: waluk@...
Remains of the domesticated horse only have been found at Dereivka. That the horse might have been domesticated at the end of the Paleolithic is an "old idea". The horse was not used for riding because the wild horse is dangerous; the only use was as a loading animal.