Cave Drawings Reveal New Info On Spotted Horses
Welcome to Open Range, What do 25,000 year old cave drawings have to do with today’s Appaloosa’s? Apparently humans have always been captivated by colored horses. In America our Northwest Nez Pierce revered horses with spots known as leopard, one of the six patterns of the Appaloosa horse the tribe is credited as breeding. Yet spotted horses have been found in other breeds for centuries in Russia, Mongolia even Denmark and most recently new discovery’s from cave drawings in France show spotted horses lived 25, 000 years ago. Until now the famous cave-horse drawings were believed to be merely symbolic as the smudgy horses frolicked on walls and ceilings along with lions and mammoths, but ID technology using ancient material combined with the DNA of modern horses found spotted horses were a reality. Why do we care? Interestingly the coat color of a horse is a tool in helping archeologists determine when animals were domesticated because domesticated animals show more variety in their coat colors and body types, Apparently this new finding is causing quite a stir and disproving the theory that all cave art is all symbolic when reality it the drawings on walls and ceiling could simply have been early human's form of home videos. They painted spotted horses because they saw them and were captivated by them Thousands of years later, spotted horses are still coveted by people throughout the world.
