Native Americans used horses far earlier than historians had believed
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Horses Transformed Native American Life Far Earlier Than We Thought, New Study Reveals
Native American people integrated horses into their communities much earlier than European colonial records suggest, according to an innovative study Thursday that combined archaeological and genetic analysis with Indigenous oral traditions.
Indigenous groups in the American West lived alongside horses by the early 1600s, study finds
The timing is significant because it matches up with the oral histories of many Indigenous groups that they had horses of Spanish descent before the Europeans physically arrived in their homelands, perhaps through trading networks.
Archaeology and genomics together with Indigenous knowledge revise the human-horse story in the American West
European colonists chronicled their version of how Indigenous peoples lived with horses. New collaborative research adds scientific detail to Indigenous narratives that tell a different story.
New, exhaustive study probes hidden history of horses in the American West
Indigenous peoples as far north as Wyoming and Idaho may have begun to care for horses by the first half of the 17th Century, according to a new study by researchers from 15 countries and multiple Native American groups.
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