Horseback riding may have begun 5,000 years ago in Europe: study
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Who were the first people to ride horses?Researchers believe they have found the earliest evidence of horseback riding, by the ancient Yamnaya people in
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Archaeologists have found the first direct evidence for horseback riding in 5,000 year old skeletons in central Europe. The advent of horseback riding transformed human history by accelerating trade, communications
Who were the first people to ride horses?Researchers believe they have found the earliest evidence of horseback riding, by the ancient Yamnaya people in
Archaeologists have found a handful of human skeletons with characteristics that have been linked to horseback riding and are a millennium older than early depictions of humans riding horses
Researchers analyzed more than 200 Bronze Age skeletal remains in museum collections in Bulgaria, Poland, Romania, Hungary and the Czech Republic to look for signs of what co-author and University of Helsinki anthropologist Martin Trautmann calls "horse rider syndrome."
Researchers have found evidence of horseback riding in skeletal remains of people who lived about 5,000 years ago, adding to a body of research on when people first started using horses to get around.
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