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Bronze Age bits
CLICK TO READ MOREby Giovanni Battista Tomassini As we have seen in the myth of Pegasus and Bellerophon, in antiquity the application of the bit was considered a decisive moment for the horse’s submission to the…
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Kikkuli
CLICK TO READ MOREby Giovanni Battista Tomassini We know very little about this mysterious character, whose name, however, is remembered for being the author of the oldest text dedicated to the care and training of the…
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The oldest text dedicated to the care and training of the horse
CLICK TO READ MOREby Giovanni Battista Tomassini If the oldest image of a domesticated horse can be traced back to the Sumerian civilization, the earliest written text dedicated to the care and training of the horse…
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The first domestication of the horse
CLICK TO READ MOREby Giovanni Battista Tomassini The domestication of the horse, for the purpose of using it for chariots and equitation, came after a very slow process. The first relationship between horse and human, in…
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