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3 Απρ 2023 · Horses evolved in the Americas around four million years ago, but by about 10,000 years ago, they had mostly disappeared from the fossil record, per the Conversation. Spanish settlers...
6 Νοε 2020 · Forty million years ago, horses first emerged in North America, but after migrating to Asia over the Bering land bridge, horses disappeared from this continent at least 10,000 years ago. For...
Native American people integrated horses into their communities much earlier than European colonial records suggest, according to an innovative study Thursday that combined archaeological and genetic analysis with Indigenous oral traditions.
27 Απρ 2020 · Horses that live in the Americas today, claim historians, are descendants of those first brought by European explorers and settlers in the early 16th century. But according to Indigenous oral histories and spiritual beliefs from Saskatchewan to Oklahoma, America’s Native horses never went extinct.
30 Μαρ 2023 · And by 5000 years ago at the latest, the fossil record suggests, North America’s horses were gone. Along with nearly 40 other species of megafauna, from saber-toothed tigers and mammoths to camels, they were wiped out by hunting, climate change, or both.
13 Ιουν 2024 · While wild horses are believed to have evolved in North America tens of millions of years ago and died out around 10,000 years ago, this new evidence supports the idea that horses were integrated into Great Plains societies before European contact.
The horse era began for most Plains Indians with high expectations but soon collapsed into a series of unsolvable economic, social, political, and ecological contradictions. The purpose of this essay is to trace those contradictions.
