Horses!
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Let us remember the first humans to truly be friends with horses on horseback...
Neesy
#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
I don't know that the Native Americans were the first, in fact I seriously doubt it.Let us remember the first humans to truly be friends with horses on horseback...
Neesy
#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
Weren't horses introduced to North America by the Spaniards? Again maybe I am just forgetting my history lessons.
HUMANS AND HORSES
North American horses disappeared around 8,000 - 10,000 years ago. Multiple factors including hunting by early Natives, climate change, and disease are thought to have helped contribute to their demise. They disappeared around the same time as other large mammals like Wooly Mammoths.
Human contact with horses is thought to have first occurred around 3 mya, as Homo sapiens moved out of Africa. Ancient Eurasians were known to hunt and eat horses, and their meat formed a staple of many diets at the time.
First domestication of horses occurred around 3,000 B.C. in the Middle East. At this time, the horse replaced the onager as a beast of burden. In fact, European horses were domesticated for several thousand years at the time the Spanish began exploring the Americas in the late 15th century.
RE-INTRODUCTION OF HORSES BY THE SPANISH
Spain’s king gave Conquistadors very fine horses, which the sailors sold to buy cheaper, hardier horses — Iberian Barb’ descendents, also known as Jennets or Andaluz Mustangs. These creatures were small and rugged working, unique to Iberia. They no longer exists but their legacy lives on as Iberian horses have a rich history in horsemanship and breeding. Likewise, old Spanish horses not around anymore outside of heritage in some wild/domestics.
The first Spanish horses arrived in the Carribbean in the early 1500s. In 1519, Conquistadors re-introduced horses to North America. Fifteen horses were brought by the Cortez expedition and were imported by Spanish homesteaders to Mexico and New Mexico. The re-introduced species made their way north through the western U.S. west of the Rocky Mountains to the coast, following the expansion of the Mexican/Spanish. Although greatly valued by their owners, they occasionally escaped, fueling Navajo raiders as early as 1606. Trading and warring among Natives resulted in a rapid spread pf horses through the continent.
Within 150 years of the first colonizers, herds of millions ÿ mostly Spanish Andaluz Mustangs — were roaming the plains. The following centuries saw other European settlers bringing their own horses from the east. British and French colonizers introduced Thoroughbreds, where as Russians are thought to have brought horses to the continent from the Northwest, but this is unestablished. Most non-Spanish stock blended together, becaming "North American breeds" through cross-breeding. In the 1800s in the U.S., millions of horses were collected for riding and other use by ranchers and the military. By the late 1800s millions of wild horses were killed due to increasing land conflicts with ranchers.
North American horses disappeared around 8,000 - 10,000 years ago. Multiple factors including hunting by early Natives, climate change, and disease are thought to have helped contribute to their demise. They disappeared around the same time as other large mammals like Wooly Mammoths.
Human contact with horses is thought to have first occurred around 3 mya, as Homo sapiens moved out of Africa. Ancient Eurasians were known to hunt and eat horses, and their meat formed a staple of many diets at the time.
First domestication of horses occurred around 3,000 B.C. in the Middle East. At this time, the horse replaced the onager as a beast of burden. In fact, European horses were domesticated for several thousand years at the time the Spanish began exploring the Americas in the late 15th century.
RE-INTRODUCTION OF HORSES BY THE SPANISH
Spain’s king gave Conquistadors very fine horses, which the sailors sold to buy cheaper, hardier horses — Iberian Barb’ descendents, also known as Jennets or Andaluz Mustangs. These creatures were small and rugged working, unique to Iberia. They no longer exists but their legacy lives on as Iberian horses have a rich history in horsemanship and breeding. Likewise, old Spanish horses not around anymore outside of heritage in some wild/domestics.
The first Spanish horses arrived in the Carribbean in the early 1500s. In 1519, Conquistadors re-introduced horses to North America. Fifteen horses were brought by the Cortez expedition and were imported by Spanish homesteaders to Mexico and New Mexico. The re-introduced species made their way north through the western U.S. west of the Rocky Mountains to the coast, following the expansion of the Mexican/Spanish. Although greatly valued by their owners, they occasionally escaped, fueling Navajo raiders as early as 1606. Trading and warring among Natives resulted in a rapid spread pf horses through the continent.
Within 150 years of the first colonizers, herds of millions ÿ mostly Spanish Andaluz Mustangs — were roaming the plains. The following centuries saw other European settlers bringing their own horses from the east. British and French colonizers introduced Thoroughbreds, where as Russians are thought to have brought horses to the continent from the Northwest, but this is unestablished. Most non-Spanish stock blended together, becaming "North American breeds" through cross-breeding. In the 1800s in the U.S., millions of horses were collected for riding and other use by ranchers and the military. By the late 1800s millions of wild horses were killed due to increasing land conflicts with ranchers.
Either way, Native Americans have a history of being a deeply involved horse culture. Not all nits need to be picked.
Actually, most historians agree camels were domesticated 5000 years ago, or earlier, and used throughout Arabia and Asia. Perhaps the art was taken with the apparent 'Native American Indian spreading' from Asia 10-12,000 years ago. Mongolia history tells that they rid around 1100 AD on the pony sized Mongolian horses. Our history books teach that horse back riding developed in Europe in the middle ages but, especially that time in history is recorded with manipulations. Western Europe retired advancing land transport with the horse(s) drawn carraiges. That's it!
Just before the official discovery of the American Continents we are told to beleive that western Europe decided to go out on a limb and try for the lone rider approach finally after all that time...
Then the European conquerors and pirates supposedly brought horse back riding (and horses from the homeland too maybe?) to the Natives just before conquest?
May have been presumptious of me to state it so matter-of-fact but, you can see where I am going. Not challenging or being smartass. Just sayin'...
I hadn't paid attention to the thread because I'm not a horse guy, but I do have some horse pictures.
I went to a friend of a friend's place to take some pictures of the ranching holdings, but apparently, the friend of the friend didn't like my shots. So at least the horse pics, you get to see them.
Aren't you lucky.
I went to a friend of a friend's place to take some pictures of the ranching holdings, but apparently, the friend of the friend didn't like my shots. So at least the horse pics, you get to see them.
Aren't you lucky.
Didn't like them? Just look at that face! I think they're great.
