Horsemanship, Environmental Change, and Early Nomadic Life in Eastern Eurasia by William Taylor
From their initial domestication to their entrada into the Americas, horses transformed life for people and animals around the globe. This lecture discusses evidence for the first emergence of horse herding and riding in Mongolia and eastern Eurasia, placing these developments in ecological context and exploring their implications for the modern world.
William Taylor is a recent UNM graduate and postdoctoral research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany. His research investigates the role of horses in human societies, with an emphasis on understanding the environmental context of animal domestication.
