North America didn’t have horses, when they were brought in, the Apache, more than any other indigenous group, structured their entire way of life around them. Well at least that’s what I learned from Western movies.
Now, I’ve read that horses were native to the Asian continent and migrated elsewhere, eventually to the Americas. However, I was at the San Diego Natural History museum and they had a display that claims the opposite, that horses are native to then migrated out of the Americas.
We have reached the limits of what I know on the subject. So, no idea. If forced to make an uneducated guess, I’d say it was probably some combination of environmental factors, a preexisting culture that fit particularly well with horses, and natural variation in adoption of new tech among different groups of people.
blackstampede@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
North America didn’t have horses, when they were brought in, the Apache, more than any other indigenous group, structured their entire way of life around them. Well at least that’s what I learned from Western movies.
JamesTBagg@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Now, I’ve read that horses were native to the Asian continent and migrated elsewhere, eventually to the Americas. However, I was at the San Diego Natural History museum and they had a display that claims the opposite, that horses are native to then migrated out of the Americas.
FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Interesting. I knew about the horses being non-native. But the Apache part not.
Is there something that made them more likely to benefit from being a horse-culture?
Living on Steppes and Plains?
piccolo@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Horses are native to the americas. They evolved here and spreaded to asia but went extict in america around the end of the ice age.
WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
They were too tasty for their own good.
PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 hours ago
Would it be unfair to say the horses that were there are a different species than those imported by the Spanish?
Stamau123@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
They lived mostly in the southern Great plains, extending into the desert, so I imagine horses would be great for them
blackstampede@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
We have reached the limits of what I know on the subject. So, no idea. If forced to make an uneducated guess, I’d say it was probably some combination of environmental factors, a preexisting culture that fit particularly well with horses, and natural variation in adoption of new tech among different groups of people.