Tracing the Origins of Horseback Riding: Insights from Human Skeletons

Reexamining the Kurgan Hypothesis through Ancient Skeletal Analysis

A new study¹ challenges long-held beliefs about the origins of horseback riding, casting doubt on the Kurgan hypothesis, which claims that humans first began domesticating horses as early as the fourth millennium B.C. Archaeologists from the University of Colorado Boulder have explored the skeletal remains of ancient humans, shedding light on whether phy…