Alan Crowhurst / Getty Images Horseback riding was likely a common activity as early as 4,500 to 5,000 years ago, according to a provocative new study that looked at human skeletal remains for small ...

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A new, wide-ranging exploration of human remains casts doubt on a long-standing theory in archaeology known as the Kurgan hypothesis -- which, among other claims, suggests that humans first ...

The earliest evidence of horse riding has been found in 5000-year-old human skeletons from south-east Europe. The bones of nine men from graves in Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania show hallmarks of horse ...

An elderly woman in the Seattle area died this year from a bacterial infection that usually only affects horses after she had close contact with an ill animal, according to a recent CDC report.

ALL DIFFERENT FORMS. EVEN WITH FOUR HOOVES AND A MANE. HUMANS AND HORSES ARE CREATING BONDS THAT ARE TRULY HEALING. WE WANT TO INTRODUCE YOU TO THIS WEEK’S COMMUNITY CHAMPION FREEDOM RIDE. TUCKED AWAY ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — Each month we focus on a Southern Arizona nonprofit with our "Giving Project—Doing Well by Doing Good." This July, KGUN 9 is shining the spotlight on TROT: Therapeutic Riding of ...

As anyone who’s spent time in the saddle knows, riding a horse can be hard on your body. But can it change the way your skeleton looks? The answer, according to archaeologists from the University of ...