Apparently the French have not changed too much, they still like to eat horses.
Exactly.
Now if there were any evidence that the Neanderthals were riding the horses — that would be very cool.
nothing wrong with eating horse meat. It is actually quite good, if cooked properly. Trigger, Sea Biscuit, and Budweiser Clydesdales aside, A horse is a four legged furry mammal, Homo sapiens has a very long history of eating any four legged furry mammal that they could get their hands on.