The Yamnaya, the common ancestors of European, Hindi and Farsi speaking populations, are probably the first group to ride horses. This super charges pastoralism and transformed the steppe, warfare and Eurasian genetics.
Their descendents developed the spoked wheel.
The funny looking words are reconstructed proto-indo-european terms -
*koryos is a kind of ritual teenaged war band that ate their own dogs and lived in the wilderness before becoming full citizens.
*h1ekwos means horse, think ‘equestrian’ from the Latin ‘equus’. The ‘h1’ means it’s one of three h-like sounds that we can’t reconstruct exactly but know existed.
The Yamnaya, the common ancestors of European, Hindi and Farsi speaking populations, are probably the first group to ride horses. This super charges pastoralism and transformed the steppe, warfare and Eurasian genetics. Their descendents developed the spoked wheel.
The funny looking words are reconstructed proto-indo-european terms -
*koryos is a kind of ritual teenaged war band that ate their own dogs and lived in the wilderness before becoming full citizens.
*h1ekwos means horse, think ‘equestrian’ from the Latin ‘equus’. The ‘h1’ means it’s one of three h-like sounds that we can’t reconstruct exactly but know existed.
Ah, neat. Thank you