One of the oldest-known specimens points to the Iberian Peninsula as the source of the first domesticated horses in the Americas.
500 years agoThough historical records state that these domesticated horses sailed from the Iberian Peninsula to the Caribbean on Spanish ships, there isn’t much in the archaeological record to corroborate the story.
That is, until now, since the genetic analysis of a tooth fragment from the 16th century cinches the origin of the first domesticated horses in the Western Hemisphere. “The analysis of the introduction of [modern horses] in the Americas is such a fascinating yet understudied topic,” the study authors say in aMore broadly, the analysis also reveals the importance of archaeological specimens in the study of history.
Further supporting this conclusion is the fact that the horse’s closest living relatives are a population of feral horses that have supposedly lived on Chincoteague Island in Virginia since a 16th-century mishap on a Spanish ship. “Further work on feral horse populations along the Atlantic coast of the United States, and continued horse archaeogenomic sampling promises to further clarify our understanding of how horses colonized the Western hemisphere,” the authors conclude in their paper.
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