Western science has finally admitted that #NativeAmericans had #horses, fed them, and even provided veterinary care centuries before any Europeans arrived on the continent - upending the colonialism narrative.
Tribes and oral history have always said this. It's about time archeologists took them seriously.
A season without much rain brought a dry dusty desert last fall in Utah's Onaqui Mountain range. These wild ones lines up perfectly for me on the hillside as the dust from their movement floats by.
The importance of the Yamnaya in the domestication of #horses is well known, & the latest evidence for the dating comes from skeletal form rather than #DNA, but I find it frustrating when a report refers to genetic evidence without mentioning a single haplogroup. Why? (Hoping to be more accessible to gneral reader?) #archaeology 1/n
The absence of mention of #DNA haplogroups is even stranger in this piece, as
It notes limits of early work on the so-called Cohen Modal Haplotype, which involves Y-DNA
Whereas #Ashkenazic & #Sephardic Cohanim share similar #genetic traits, over half of Ashkenazic Levites display an unusual haplotype (formerly R1a1a, now called R1a-Y2619). So haplotypes are central to this genetic quest
#Introduction: I'm not new to the Fediverse, but just discovered this AZ server, so thought I'd investigate and get acquainted. I'll edit this intro more when I have a few more minutes, but wanted to go ahead and get at least a little something posted. I am especially interested in making local connections.
Hello
I am Catherine a writer living in #Shetland.
My first book is #naturewriting and tells the story of Shetland ponies and the people who love them. I am slowly starting #writing my second book and working on some short pieces.
I did an #anthropology PhD on Shetland ponies, #landscape and #identity and I mostly write about #nature#horses and how we feel at home in a place. #introduction