If these skeletons are evidence of horse-riders, then they could provide a key “missing link” between the two. A 3,500-year-old depiction of the Egyptian goddess Astarte on horseback. S.

Then, the “riders” have to go back and teach their “horse” a task — such as walkng in a figure eight, then jumping a fence, and then sitting in a chair.

Skeletons unearthed from graves in southeastern Europe bear the earliest known evidence of horse riding in the archaeological record, new research has revealed. Horseback riding was a pivotal ...