5,000-Year-Old Remains Might Be Oldest-Known Horseback Riders
Researchers interrogating the skeletal remains in kurgans—5,000-year-old burial mounds—found evidence that some of the Neolithic people were riding horses.The findings fill in a gap in two fundamental timestamps of humankind’s relationship to horses: the first evidence of horse domestication (around 5,500 years ago) and the first horse-drawn chariots (4,000 years ago). The research is published today in Science Advances.A team of archaeologists and bioanthropologists offer the first scientific analysis of the remains of…