PREHISTORIC USE OF HORSES 
_As to the origin of our tamed horses the most authoritative 
and succinct conclusions of science are expressed Origin of 
. i F Modern 
in the ensuing paragraphs from Professor Osborn’s Horses. 
book.47 
“The conquest of the horse by man marked one of the great turning 
points in the history of civilization. .. In the Interglacial or Postglacial 
period the remains of man and the horse are first found together. The 
first association occurs in the middle of the Paleolithic or rough-implement 
period. The discovery 
of all the possible uses 
of the horse came very 
gradually, for there is 
abundant proof that 
man first hunted and 
ate, then drove, and 
finally rode the animal. 
The remarkable draw- 
ings discovered by Ri- 
viére in rgoz in the 
cave of La Mouthe are 
believed to be of Paleo- 
lithic age. The artists 
of La Mouthe and other PALEOLITHIC DRAWINGS OF Horses, 
caves in France left out- 
lines partly etched, partly in ocher, of the animals of the chase, the reindeer, 
mammoth, bison, ibex, and horse, which have, for our purpose, the extreme 
merit of telling the truth. There are varieties in these drawings which 
Ewart interprets as indicating a variety of races. 
“The prevailing drawings of the Paleolithic horse represent him as 
hog-maned, with no forelock to conceal the low-bred Roman nose. 
Besides these Roman-nosed types, to which Ewart traces the modern cart 
horse, there are others with small heads and flat noses, which Ewart asso- 
ciates with the Celtic pony, and possibly with the origin of the thoroughbred. 
Other cave drawings, reproduced by M. Capitan, leave little doubt that 
the ass was known in Europe. It is also certain from abundant evi- 
dence in the caves of France that there was a larger horse toward the 
south perhaps, while the smaller breeds may have frequented the cold 
northern regions. The horse was at first simply hunted for food, and in 
the Solutrian period became the chief article of food, as shown by piled-up 
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