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I just watched a PBS video about this yesterday [1]. Horses evolved in North America, walked across the land bridge to Asia, died out in North America during th
by hoorayimhelping 7y ago
I just watched a PBS video about this yesterday [1]. Horses evolved in North America, walked across the land bridge to Asia, died out in North America during the ice age, were domesticated in the Eurasian Steppe, were transported back to North America by Europeans, and then became feral on the plains that they initially evolved on.
1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZoTvXvV02A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZoTvXvV02A
- chrischen 7y agoDidn’t Native Americans use horses? So they were using European horses?
- NeedMoreTea 7y agoYes they were European horses, first brought by the Spanish. Once they arrived Native Americans started using horses quite quickly.
- huherto 7y agoAs an interesting cultural bullet. The American Cowboy tradition is heavily influenced by the Northern-Mexican Vaqueros.
- mc32 7y agoWhat about gauchos? Argentina used to supply a lot of beef to the word such that they had been prosperous at one time.
- huherto 7y agoVaqueros, Gauchos and Llaneros(Venezuela) probably have the same origin in horse riding country side people on the Iberian Península. But I doubt the Gauchos influenced the Cowboys since they are far, far away.
- hammock 7y agoMakes sense, since Mexico is where the Spanish were.
- BurningFrog 7y agoWild European horses reached many native peoples already in the 1600s, long before they had met any actual Europeans.