. Types and breeds of farm animals . Livestock. 6 THE HORSE, ASS, AND MULE The first association of man with the prehistoric horse so far as discovered existed in ttie Paleolithic or Stone Implement Age. It is assumed that man first hunted horses for food, then drove them, and iinally used them for riding and then as beasts of burden. The bones of human beings have been found in connec- tion with prehistoric horse remains in South America, but not in North America. In Europe man and the prehistoric horse were without doubt associated. The connecting link between the prehistoric horse and the h
. Types and breeds of farm animals . Livestock. 6 THE HORSE, ASS, AND MULE The first association of man with the prehistoric horse so far as discovered existed in ttie Paleolithic or Stone Implement Age. It is assumed that man first hunted horses for food, then drove them, and iinally used them for riding and then as beasts of burden. The bones of human beings have been found in connec- tion with prehistoric horse remains in South America, but not in North America. In Europe man and the prehistoric horse were without doubt associated. The connecting link between the prehistoric horse and the horse of modern times is assumed to be the present form of the zebra. I. \^^^ ^ y> >*i. ./^ Fig. 3. Restoration of the foui-toed horse. Photograph from original water color by C. R. Knight, based on mounted skeleton sixteen inches high, in American Museum of Natural History the wild ass of Asia and Africa, and Przewalskii's horse. The latter was discovered by Poliakoff in 1881 on the desert of Zungaria in western Mongolia in Asia. It has been assumed that this type of wild pony, standing forty inches high, is quite similar to the horse as known by prehistoric man thirty thousand years ago. The European cave drawings show a strong resem- blance to the Przewalskii horse, and it is probable that from such an ancestry has come the Norwegian, Irish, and other ponies of northern Europe, and the wild horse of Mongolia and Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Plumb, Charles S. (Charles Sumner), 1860-1939. Boston ; New York : Ginn
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