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mymeatpuppets t1_jbcvf1m wrote

Reply to comment by SassyShorts in Humans Started Riding Horses 5,000 Years Ago, New Evidence Suggests by Magister_Xehanort

You haven't considered moose.

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HermanCainsGhost t1_jbd4kc7 wrote

Moose were never used or domesticated that way. It's not impossible they could have been, but being such northerly animals, human populations tended to be smaller near moose populations

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sunberrygeri t1_jbd7e4m wrote

Many mammals are incredibly hard to tame, let alone domesticate (intentionally and successfully breeding for useful traits over a very long period of time). Sub-saharan Africa had a similar problem.

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War_Hymn t1_jbfqice wrote

Doesn't adult height in a demographics usually has to do with nutritional factors?

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HermanCainsGhost t1_jbfrnqu wrote

By “populations were smaller”, I meant there were less people, not that they were of shorter stature, sorry for the confusion

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Runonlaulaja t1_jbeotbq wrote

Reindeer...

Those have been used for a long time in the far North

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