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HorseHistory.com
The HorseHistory.com website is currently under development.
This web site is dedicated to the Horse.
For if there were never any horses,
the world would surely be a very different one than the one we know.
Our intent is to publish information pertaining to all aspects of the horse,
the evolution of the horse, articles about the horses role throughout history,
their influence on
the development of human culture, and the niche with which they partake
in their environment.
And more.
Some Basic Horse History.
Equines first appeared during the Eocene epoch. “Dawn Horse” or Eohippus,
was about 14 inches high at the withers, and lived between 50 and 60 million
years ago in the semitropical forests of an area that would later become
the midwestern United States. Eohippus had four toes in the front and three
toes in the back.
The first single hoofed horses lived about seven million years ago during
the Miocene epoch. They lived on grassy plains and closely resembled modern
horses.
Equus caballus (the modern horse) evolved during the Pleistocene epoch,
around two million years ago.
Archaeologists excavating on the steppes of Kazakstan have found evidence
that horses may have first been domesticated for riding or driving as early
as 3500BC.
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