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They Were Hard Ridden Work Horses  When all of these new findings are interpreted together, the new paper describes the bone and tooth abnormalities as “textbook examples of what happens when horses are ridden heavily,” said Alan Outram, an archaeologist at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom who was not involved in the research. The Archaeology News Network article quotes Dr Outram saying “There’s no question that these horses are riding horses,” based on the severe wear and tear observed on the bone samples. Although new data has been amassed pertaining to how hard, or horribly, horses were treated by people in ancient China , the point of this study was to try and trace the emergence, or ancient origins, of horseback riding and domestication. Furthermore, the scientist set out to better understanding

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