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Thanks to DJ for that info.
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| 1000 Year Old Viking Shield. |
A recent study determined that 1000-year-old Viking shields found on a shipwreck were actually battle-used. It was preivously thought that they were ceremonial.
A reanalysis of the wooden shields, which were unearthed in the Gokstad ship in southern Norway in 1880, suggests they may have once been covered with rawhide (untanned cattle skin) and used in hand-to-hand combat, according to a new study published on March 24 in the journal Arms and Armour....
Here is the link for more about that.
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Here is a study about how and when modern horses were adopted by indigenous tribes.
The researchers drew on archaeozoology, radiocarbon dating, DNA sequencing and other tools to unearth how and when horses first arrived in various regions of today's United States. Based on the team's calculations, Indigenous communities were likely riding and raising horses as far north as Idaho and Wyoming by at least the first half of the 17th Century -- as much as a century before records from Europeans had suggested.
Groups like the Comanche, in other words, may have begun to form deep bonds with horses mere decades after the animals arrived in the Americas on Spanish boats...
Here is that link.
New, exhaustive study probes hidden history of horses in the American West -- ScienceDaily
Of course there were horses in the New World before the Spanish broubht them.
Horses evolved in the Americas around four million years ago, but by about 10,000 years ago, they had mostly disappeared from the fossil record, per the Conversation. Spanish settlers likely first brought horses back to the Americas in 1519, when Hernán Cortés arrived on the continent in Mexico. Per the new paper, Indigenous peoples then transported horses north along trade networks...New Research Rewrites the History of American Horses | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine
Horse fossils are common finds on the Treasure Coast beaches. I've shown quite a few in this blog over the years.
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