The Story of the Horse

How its unique role in human culture transformed history

By JARRETT A. LOBELL and ERIC A. POWELL

July/August 2015

Story of the Horse previewSome 50 million years ago, in the forests of North America, a timid herbivore less than two feet tall browsed for leaves and fruit. This tiny creature is now called eohippus, or “dawn horse,” and by 1.5 million years ago, its ancestors had evolved into what we today recognize as the horse. About 900,000 years ago, horses spread from the grasslands of North America to the Old World, where they would eventually have their first encounters with people. And so began the incomparable relationship between horses and humans, evidence of which is found in the archaeological record throughout the world.


Taming the Horse
Horses and the Heavens
Riding into the Afterlife
Warhorses
Sport and Spectacle
Return to the New World
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