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In just a few centuries, these horses’ descendants spread quickly across Eurasia, supplanting almost all previous wild horse populations. Orlando and colleagues analyzed ancient DNA from 273 horse bone specimens from across the continents, spanning 50,000 years of human and equine history. Humans may have tamed horses before, but it wasn’t until this point that our relationship with horses really took off, he says.