New research on history of horse domestication

The World

The human-horse relationship goes back a very very long time. But how far back exactly and why it happened remain a big mystery. Host Marco Werman speaks with William Taylor, assistant professor and curator of archaeology at the University of Colorado, Boulder, to find out what the latest research says about this historic relationship.

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