according to a provocative new study that looked at human skeletal remains for small signs of the physical stress associated with riding horses. People first started keeping horses about 5,500 ...

Ultimately, Hosek and Taylor say that human remains on their own can't be used to put a date on when people first started riding horses—at least not with currently available science.

Researchers have discovered evidence of horse riding by studying the remains of human skeletons found in burial mounds called kurgans, which were between 4500-5000 years old. The earthen burial ...

As it happens, we don’t need to find the horse to find signs of people riding it. We could uncover clues from the remains of the human rider instead. A life on horseback warps human bones ...

And because the research focuses exclusively on human remains, not everyone is convinced the analysis shows that humans were riding horses specifically, despite long-standing academic association ...

Have you ever wondered when human first started riding horses? Well, news research suggests scientists think domesticated horses - horse that work with humans - first started spreading around the ...

Ultimately, Hosek and Taylor say that human remains on their own can't be used to put a date on when people first started riding horses -- at least not with currently available science.