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History => Ancient and Medieval History => Topic started by: Erpingham on Apr 19, 2020, 07:05 AM

Title: Iron Age Horses in Scandinavia
Post by: Erpingham on Apr 19, 2020, 07:05 AM
Academia's random bot recommended this for me

https://www.academia.edu/36654724/The_Iron_Age_Horse

Part of a series of papers from a book on the site, several of which may be of interest.

For those short on time, the basic modelling information is

The horses were around 120–140 cm over the withers and most were black, bay or chestnut in colour.



Title: Re: Iron Age Horses in Scandinavia
Post by: Andreas Johansson on Apr 19, 2020, 07:22 AM
Quote from: Erpingham on Apr 19, 2020, 07:05 AM

The horses were around 120–140 cm over the withers and most were black, bay or chestnut in colour.

But the analysis apparently couldn't detect dilution genes, so some or all of them could actually have been dun (cf the Fjord horse (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fjord_horse)), or in principle more exotic dilution variants.