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> Oxen and horses were unavailable for pre-Columbian civilizations in the new world Eventually. Horses only became extinct in the New World around 10,000 years
by rafram 2y ago
> Oxen and horses were unavailable for pre-Columbian civilizations in the new world
Eventually. Horses only became extinct in the New World around 10,000 years ago — somewhere between 15,000 and 6,000 years after humans arrived.
- inglor_cz 2y agoYes, the horse is actually an American species that expanded into the Old World. The pre-Columbian civilizations (and by that I mean the highly organized socially stratified societies that we are aware of) only emerged several millennia after the paleo-Indians hunted horses to extinction, though.