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Iron Age Horses in Scandinavia

Started by Erpingham, April 19, 2020, 08:05:46 AM

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Erpingham

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.




Andreas Johansson

Quote from: Erpingham on April 19, 2020, 08:05:46 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), or in principle more exotic dilution variants.
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