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  • The most ancient evidence of horsemanship in the bronze age

    07/15/2020 7:36:02 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 9 replies
    Phys.org ^ | July 13, 2020 | South Ural State University
    The burial ground is located near the city of Lisakovsk in the Kostanay region of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Archeologist Emma Usmanova from Karaganda State University has been working on it for several decades. About 3,500 years ago, people of the Andronovo culture lived on this territory. A distinctive feature of the culture of that period was the development of horse breeding. The animals were used not only for food but also for harnessing to chariots and riding. This is confirmed by the remains of horses that were discovered in the burial ground Novoilinovsky-2. Scientists drew attention to the approximate...