The Yamnaya may have been the world’s earliest known horseback riders

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'The human skeletal system is like a book. If you have some knowledge, you can read it.”

started riding horses during that time, but that’s debated . The Yamnaya had horses as well, and archaeologists have speculated that the people probably rode them, but evidence was lacking.

The earliest depictions of horseback riding date to about 4,000 years ago, although a new study suggests some Yamnaya people were riding horses around 1,000 years earlier. This limestone relief, from the Horemheb tomb in Egypt constructed around 1300 B.C., depicts a bareback style of riding the Yamnaya may have used.Heyd and colleagues weren’t seeking evidence of horsemanship.

A Przewalski’s horse is similar in appearance, color and size to the kind of horse the Yamnaya may have ridden.“Hypothetically speaking, it’s very logical,” says bioarchaeologist Maria Mednikova of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, who was not involved in the new study. The Yamnaya were very close to horses, she says, so at some point, they probably experimented with riding.

 

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