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Early domestication of animals. A horse from Lascaux. Replica in the Brno museum Anthropos.

Crazy Horse (Tasunke Witko, l. c. 1840-1877) was an Oglala Lakota Sioux warrior and warband leader considered among the greatest defenders of Sioux lands against the forces of the US government in the 19th century. He is one of the...

The Dun Horse is a Pawnee tale about a poor boy and his grandmother, who find an old horse and take it in. The horse turns out to be magical, however, and improves their fortunes considerably. Like many Pawnee legends – and Native...

The cutting of huge figures or geoglyphs into the turf of English hillsides has been going on for more than 3000 years. There are 56 hill figures scattered around England, with the vast majority on the chalk downlands...

Black Elk Speaks (1932) is the popular and controversial book of the narrative by the Oglala Lakota Sioux medicine man Black Elk (l. 1863-1950) on his life and people as given to the American poet and writer John G. Neihardt...

Charles A. Eastman's biography of Crazy Horse (l. c. 1840-1877) is among the most significant sources on the great Sioux war chief, as Eastman drew on accounts of those who had known and fought alongside him in writing...

A relief slab from the tomb of Tang Dynasty emperor Taizong showing one of his horses. c. 650 CE, Zhaoling, China. (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia)

A French illustration of a horse-powered threshing machine. This machine, used to separate grain from the husk, was invented in 1787 by the Scotsman Andrew Meikle (1719-1811). The machine used a drum with beaters to...

Bronze and ivory horse breastplate with the Gorgon's head. From Ruvo, Italy, dated to the end of the 6th century BCE. National Archaeological Museum of Naples. Photo taken at the "Fantastic Creatures of Fear and...

This horse rider ryhton was discovered while archaeologists excavated the ancient Erebuni Fortress, which is located in present-day Yerevan, Armenia. It dates from the 5th century BCE when Erebuni was under Persian control and...