Horse culture

 ( Anthropological Categories Of Peoples ) 

A horse culture is a tribe or community whose day-to-day life revolves around the herding and breeding of . Beginning with the domestication of the horse on the steppes of Eurasia, the horse transformed each society that adopted its use. Notable examples are the Mongols of Mongolia, the Scythian and Turkic peoples nomads of Central Asia, the Plains Indians, the Guaycuru peoples of the Gran Chaco, and the Mapuche and Tehuelche people of Patagonia

after horses were imported from Europe, particularly from Spain, during the 16th century.

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History History offers many examples of horse cultures, such as the Huns and Eurasian nomads. Horse cultures tend to place a great deal of importance on horses and by their very nature are and usually hunter-gatherer or nomadic pastoralist societies. For example, the arrival of the horse in the Americas altered the cultures of the Native Americans in the Great Plains, the Gran Chaco and Patagonia. The horse increased mobility; the ability of the horse to cover a lot of ground in a very short period of time allowed native people to easily move from place to place, bringing on a nomadic shift in their culture, with an impact on transportation, trade, hunting and warfare.

However, there were also disadvantages to adopting horse culture, such as the increased responsibility of caring for the horses and keeping them healthy. of the community also had to shift to accommodate the physical space for horses to graze and feed easily.

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See also

• Horse culture in Mongolia
• Horse worship
• Livestock
• Nomadic empire
• Andronovo culture

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External links

• Orland Ned Eddins, "Spanish Colonial Horse and the Plains Indian Culture"

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