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Lunch Club Series | Rethinking the origins of horse domestication and its impact on the ancient world

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Lunch Club provides affiliates of the Stanford Archaeology Center with a community-oriented forum for engagement with current issues in archaeology. On February 26, 2024 we will host Dr. William Taylor from University of Colorado-Boulder.

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The domestication of the horse is widely understood as one of the most significant events in human history - with horse transport linked to drastic changes in ecology, communication, culture, ceremony, and even the very structure of societies across the ancient world. But how did this transformative relationship between people and horses first emerge? New discoveries from archaeological sciences are overturning long-held assumptions about the timing and process of the first domestication, revealing a process that was far more rapid - and far more disruptive than previously understood. 

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