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 Dinesh
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. . . The population of working horses actually peaked in England long after the Industrial Revolution, in 1901, when 3.25 million were at work. Though they had been replaced by rail for long-distance haulage and by steam engines for driving machinery, they still plowed fields, hauled wagons and carriages short distances, pulled boats on the canals, toiled in the pits, and carried armies into battle. But the arrival of the internal combustion engine in the late nineteenth century rapidly displaced these workers, so that by 1924 there was fewer than two million. There was always a wage at which all these horses could have remained employed. But that wage was so low that it did not pay for their feed, and it certainly did not pay enough to breed fresh generations of horses to replace them. Horses were thus an early casualty of industrialization. ~ Page 286
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The Pontic-Caspian steppes account for more than 40 percent of the wild horse remains in Europe from the period C.5000 BCE. the people of the Late Neolithic and Copper age cultures of the Pontic-Caspian steppes not only hunted and ate the horse (as one site in the Mid-Volga River region 66 percent of the 3,602 identified bones were from horses), but also sacrificed it (cultic deposits of horse heads and hooves have been found) and made bone plaque hose figurines. Not surprisingly, early PIE had a word for horse, ‘ekwos’. Moreover, the horse is the only animal to figure prominently in the personal names of several peoples speaking early IE languages, such as Old Indo-Aryan, Old Iranian, ancient Greek, Gaulist Celtic, and Old English, who in addition worshipped deities associated with the horse and offered horse sacrifices. ` Page 36

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