The earliest human adopters used the animal as a resource, consuming its meat and milk and fashioning tools from its bones, but they found equines helpful, too, in transporting people and goods.

How could a civilization over a thousand years ago, without the benefit of the wheel or beast of burden, ... These tools might seem primitive, but in the skilled hands of Cahokia’s workers, ...

‘The Horse’ Review: Beast of Burden, Partner in Battle Horses brought to those who tamed them the gifts of strength, speed and stamina. Their use in combat would transform the art of war.