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> The Americas had no horses before Europeans brought them. > Long since debunked I mean, the linked article says horses were introduced in the 1600s (brought
by dddddaviddddd 2y ago
> The Americas had no horses before Europeans brought them.
> Long since debunked
I mean, the linked article says horses were introduced in the 1600s (brought by Europeans), and then spread throughout the Americas without requiring further European distribution.
- TylerE 2y agoThe article says the horses were in the Americas millions of years ago.
- rezonant 2y agoAnd then died out, before Cortes brought them back to the continent in 1519. Native Americans then discovered the horses before they ran into the Europeans and began spreading them across the country. > 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 likely first brought horses back to the Americas in 1519, when Hernán Cortés arrived on the continent in Mexico. Per the new paper, Indigenous peoples then transported horses north along trade networks. Don't forget to read the whole article!
- TylerE 2y ago[flagged]
- a2tech 2y agoHorses in North America are a weird one. I believe the current thinking is that horses started in North America, migrated to Asia, then the population died off after the continents split. So there were horses in the Americas prior to the Europeans, but also potentially before humans.
- James_K 2y agoHumans and horses probably did that thing where you're looking for someone and you go to where they are then they go to where you are and you both miss eachother.