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14. Horses survived in North America to as recently as 8,000 to 10,000 years ago

Reply to PoindexterOglethorpe (Reply #13)

Sat Apr 13, 2019, 05:41 PM

Apr 2019

Long enough after the arrival of Native Americans that they could have contributed to the extinction of North American equines.

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HUMANS AND HORSES
North American horses disappeared around 8,000 - 10,000 years ago. Multiple factors including hunting by early Natives, climate change, and disease are thought to have helped contribute to their demise. They disappeared around the same time as other large mammals like Wooly Mammoths.
http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/Magazine/ma05/indepth/

And there are some claims that horses never disappeared from North America, though I am not intimately associated with this theory:
http://protectmustangs.org/?page_id=562

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Hmmm. Rather like thorougbred horses. PoindexterOglethorpe Apr 2019 #2

Same for Quarter Horses csziggy Apr 2019 #4

Did not know that about Quarter horses. PoindexterOglethorpe Apr 2019 #5

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Thank you. PoindexterOglethorpe Apr 2019 #7

Pretty much identical, but since horse's legs are nevewr totally straight csziggy Apr 2019 #8

Thanks again. PoindexterOglethorpe Apr 2019 #9

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Again, thank you. PoindexterOglethorpe Apr 2019 #11

I wonder how different American history would have been csziggy Apr 2019 #12

Native Americans did domestic horses PoindexterOglethorpe Apr 2019 #13

Horses survived in North America to as recently as 8,000 to 10,000 years ago csziggy Apr 2019 #14

I stand corrected. PoindexterOglethorpe Apr 2019 #15