Comment on “The Earliest Horse Harnessing and Milking”

Abstract

Comment on "The Earliest Horse Harnessing and Milking" (The earliest use of horses and milking). Alan K. Outrom and his colleagues believe that in Northern Kazakhstan at the Botai settlement was an independent center of domestication of the horse. In contrast, we believe that there were no domestic horses, and the inhabitants of the settlement Botai in the Late Chalcolithic hunted wild horses - tarpan. Bone parameters of Botai horses differ from the parameters of domestic horses of the next historical era - the Bronze Age. Traces on the horses teeth and diastema are not traces of bits, because such bits appeared here only in the early Iron Age.

Keywords

• Northern Kazakhstan
• horse bits
• horse domestication
• review