New Article on horse domestication - DOM2 horse population

 Salvete Omnes,

a short post to a great new article by dr David Anthony et al. - Horse genetics, archaeology, and the beginning of riding.

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from the article

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one of the earliest images of a domesticated (allegedly) horse - from Maykop Culture ware

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enjoy 

Valete

Happy Thanksgiving 2025

 Salvete Omnes,

Happy Thanksgiving to you, my friends and fellow net travelers,  & your family!! 

May your journey to your family home be safe, sound and joyful... Happy Thanksgiving dinner 

and my older post about the wild turkey of the Americas 

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Valete

May Crommelin in gaucho, criollo & huaso country p.1

Salvete Omnes,
Maria Henrietta De la Cherois- Crommelin or May Crommelin left us a very interesting depiction of the gaucho & hauso and their horses in her late XIX century travel book:

first, the criollo country illustrations from her books

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to be continued

valete

Gustave Coubert - horses and dogs

 Salvete Omnes,

Spring is in full swing - one more reason to enjoy your life if you live in the Northern Hemisphere.
Today I would like to share a corralled number of works by the mid-XIX century French  artist  Gustave Coubert, famous for his women nudes, landscapes, portraits, and support for the French Communist rebellion know as the Paris Commune of 1870.
but we will just look at some of his equestrian art with canine elements mostly in hunting context-

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dog from A Burial at Ornans

a donkey 

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a hunting dog and diligence from Bonjour Monsieur Courbert

Roebuck

the wrestlers

enjoy
Valete