Horses Domesticated Earlier Than Thought

British scientists have found that horses may have become domesticated by humans about a thousand years earlier than previous thought. They have found evidence that suggests that horses were used by a culture in what is now northern Kazakhstan about 5,500 years ago.

I believe it is important to note that this does not, in any way, threaten the status that dogs have as the earliest animals living and working alongside humans. Regardless of these new findings on horses, dogs went by the side of humans many thousands of years earlier. Horses have had a great impact on human civilisation, but dogs have been there for a much longer time and have, thus, impacted humans much more. Horses have been used as machines, vehicles and for food, while dogs are helping humans as hunters, herders, watchdogs, etc. Dogs are also something much more important, dogs are friends. However, I guess the odd horse may still feel some sense of pride that horses have a longer heritage in the human/dog civilisation.