North America didn’t originally have horses. When they were brought in, the Apache, more than any other indigenous group, structured their entire way of life around them. 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 last night and they had a display that claims the opposite, that horses are native to then migrated out of the Americas.
*37 seconds of Wikipedia browsing did teach me that native horses went extinct in North America about 8,000 years ago, then were later reintroduced.
North America didn’t originally have horses. When they were brought in, the Apache, more than any other indigenous group, structured their entire way of life around them. 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 last night and they had a display that claims the opposite, that horses are native to then migrated out of the Americas.
*37 seconds of Wikipedia browsing did teach me that native horses went extinct in North America about 8,000 years ago, then were later reintroduced.
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?
Horses are native to the americas. They evolved there and spreaded to asia but went extinct in america around the end of the ice age.
Would it be unfair to say the horses that were there are a different species than those imported by the Spanish?
I mean, if dogs get their own specie classification from their ancestor. Sure why not horses.