The bones of nomads who lived in what is now southeast Europe thousands of years ago have just yielded humanity's earliest evidence of equestrianism.
that lived across the Eurasian steppe between 3021 to 2501 BCE, these people didn't just keep horses for their milk but rode them to get around and help herd cattle and sheep.
Finding evidence of horse riding in ancient cultures can be a little more difficult than you might think. Some, like the Ancient Greeks and Egyptians, left art depicting riders on horseback; in earlier cultures, whose art perhaps did not last through the ages, evidence of horses, such as their bones in human settlements, is not quite enough to draw conclusions.
However, the absence of riding equipment can't be taken as proof that people didn't ride horses, either, since it's possible to ride without them. The researchers developed a six set of criteria that, taken together, could be seen as evidence of riding horses.
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