Patagonian people were riding horses long before Europeans arrived

Image caption: A Tehuelche family rides across the Patagonian plains on horseback in this engraving from the 1880s. Image credit: Bildagentur-Online / Universal Images Group via Getty Images. Article by Andrew Curry. Science – December 8, 2023. Research article: Interdisciplinary evidence for early domestic horse exploitation in southern Patagonia.

The first Europeans to visit the southernmost tip of South America marveled at the people they met there. They were so tall, one version of the story goes, that Ferdinand Magellan’s 16th century crew dubbed them “Patagones,” from the Spanish for “big foot.” The […]

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