{"id":3402,"date":"2010-09-15T12:43:40","date_gmt":"2010-09-15T16:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thegreathorse.com\/?p=3402"},"modified":"2017-06-01T12:53:09","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T16:53:09","slug":"historical-notes-leaving-the-prehistoric-world-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/2010\/09\/historical-notes-leaving-the-prehistoric-world-behind\/","title":{"rendered":"Historical Notes: Leaving the Prehistoric world behind …"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>In Eclipsed by Shadow<\/em>, the first book of “The Legend of the Great Horse” trilogy<\/a>, young Meagan Roberts takes the ride on a prehistoric wild horse. (excerpt of the scene<\/a>)<\/p>\n

According to fossilized bones and cave paintings, that’s just how things were between horses and humans 20,000 years ago.<\/p>\n

Our clear understanding of the distant past remains shrouded by the passage of time, but there are two important facts we can know about prehistoric horses:<\/p>\n

1) Horses have always been with us.<\/strong> Early man spent many thousands of years watching, stalking, hunting … and painting horses. The horse has been part of humanity’s story since the very beginning.<\/p>\n

2) It took thousands of years for primitive humans to even begin to learn to use horses to assist in work.<\/strong> Man’s journey from the caves required a change in attitude to seek forms of cooperation, away from seeing horses as only a form of prey. This new outlook took an amazingly long time to happen, especially considering that it was so tangibly rewarded by a horse’s willingness to share his strength with mankind.<\/p>\n

Perhaps we can’t know details about how mankind’s attitude toward horses shifted from meal to tamed beast — but the change is a case of old ways of thinking being replaced by new and better ideas. In this way, horsemanship is a living demonstration that cooperation brings new possibilities to human life and can open entire new worlds.
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\nCopyright \u00a9 2010\u00a0 John Allen Royce, Jr.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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