The mix-up is due to the lake sediments dating to roughly 14,000-16,000 years ago that surrounded the horse in the pit where indigenous people buried it.īut, radiocarbon dating of the actual bones from Lehi's anatomy and DNA samples show that the mare lived more recently than initially thought. Taylor, also a curator of archeology at the Museum of Natural History at the University of Colorado, has created a digital museum exhibit about horses in the ancient American West.ĪLSO READ: Ancient Civilization Flourished in the Desert Thanks to Bird Droppings The Dating Mix-Up Taylor says, "The Lehi horse shows us that there is an incredible archeological record out there of the early relationship between indigenous people and horses-a record that tells us things not written in any European histories." The mare skeletons known as the Lehi horse were most likely raised, looked after, and ridden by indigenous people who lived in Utah, possibly by either Ute or Shoshone communities, says Willaim Taylor, lead author and professor at the University of Colorado Boulder. Many indigenous groups that lived in the Americas integrated the European horses into their economies and cultures, say researchers who wrote the study. However, new findings suggest that the horse died when roughly 12 years of age, domestic roughly post-Columbian times after the Spanish introduced Equus caballus or domestic horses to the Americas from the 16th century. The horse's initial age suggests that the mare was wild, living in North America roughly 50 million to 10,000 years ago, disappearing about the same time as other large animals, including short-faced bears, mammoths, and dire wolves that went extinct at the end of the last ice age.
However, after analysis of the horse remains, scientists realize that the hoofed beast was actually domesticated that lived recently. There it was initially dated roughly 11,700 years ago. Landscapers initially unearthed bones in Lehi, Utah, in 2018. The History of the Mysterious Female Horse Skeleton (Photo: Photo by Anastasia Shuraeva from Pexels)Ī female horse's skeletal remains were found buried in an ancient lake in Utah and were initially thought to be from the last Ice Age roughly 16,000 years ago, but research shows that the remains are no older than 340 years old.
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