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As we know it, equestrians are the lovers of horses and horsemanship. History of the horse and these things shows us many different and rather fascinating things from this exciting hobby. Horses in history are also in many forms, from the Eohippus to the Mesochippus and also through there domestication. There is the history laying in all most every fascia of equine and equestrians place in time.

Through points of domestication and as a draft animal, the horse shows its beautiful head in many times and places. The dog is probably what most of us think of when we think of a domestic animal. In archaeological evidence, we see that hunters were using these unique skills of the dog as early as 15000 B.C. Poultry, sheep, oxen and pigs were domesticated long before the beloved horse. How or question why the horse was domesticated in the first place, this must remain a mystery even today, it is highly likely that first horses were used for food and meat.

Seeing the horse as a draft animal, as best can tell the Near East was home to some of the first populations. Farmers were using ox as draft animals from early in the fourth millennium B.C. By the time of 3000 B.C, vehicles were used, these vehicles had disk-like wheels which were pulled by equids, these were either onagers or in some cases asses. Dating from around 2500 B.C, the Standard of Ur, this was believed from southern Mesopotamia, which is todays modern Iraq, there are depictions of a four-wheeled wagon being drawn by four equids. These equids were being controlled by a nose-ring. While the wagon driver is holding a rein from the nose ring, another hand had a whip in the other. The horse because of its superior speed, it soon became the favored harness animal of all.

As there has been discovery of equin remains in Dereivka on the Ukrainian steppes border, this states that the horse may have been officially tamed and ridden some 6,000 years ago. Horse teeth have been found here, these teeth show some signs of bit wear, and there are also two pieces of antler bone that have holes bore in them, these may have served as check pieces for an ancient bridle. The nomadic peoples of steppes left no written material records, so little is known of these riders. The archaeological evidence of these peoples at Dereivka suggests that riders and horses may have existed. These findings also suggest that the horse may have been ridden first, they may also not been originally used to pull vehicles as was previously thought.

So as we see in all of these things, Horses and horsemanship have a long relationship. It also shows that physical archaeological evidence comes closer to showing this uniqueness between man and horse. The relationship that horse and man have developed is a beautiful thing. No question about it, the human populations of the world would not have flourished the way they have without the horse. This should bring an equestrian experience for every common man.

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