In this photo provided by the University of Colorado-Boulder, Lakota archaeologist Chance Ward examines horse reference collections in the Archaeozoology Laboratory at the University of Colorado-Boulder  The horse is symbolic of the American West, but when and how domesticated horses first reached the region has long been a matter of historical debate. A new analysis of horse bones gathered from museums across the Great Plains and northern Rockies has revealed that horses were present in the grasslands by the early 1600s, earlier than many written histories suggest.

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