Originally published at: New study reveals that domesticated horses may have originally come from Russia | Boing Boing
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This is not news to historical linguists.
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Horse Trading, started in ancient New Jersey, I was there, OK…
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So, the Kazakh Steppe pre-tsarist colonization.
No surprise there.
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There was a PBS show recently about the history of the horse, and this was mentioned. Basically the horse was one of the first “technological” advancements that gave its earliest adopters an advantage over other groups across central Asia.
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Fun fact: wild horses evolved about a million years ago in North America and at some point crossed the Bearing Land Bridge to Eurasia before going extinct in the Americas. Even horses wanted to get as far away as they could from New Jersey. 
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Pretty, powerful.
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