Ice Age Horse Tooth Equus ferrus caballus Doggerland-Brownbank, North Sea

Description

Ice Age Horse Tooth
Equus ferrus caballus
This tooth is from a Ice Age Horse.  It was recovered in Doggerland-Brownbank, North Sea.  It is from the Devensian stage and is approximately 10,000 years.  It comes with a display photo for better presentation.
During the last Ice Age, it roamed in large numbers in the area now known as the Yukon and Alaska. It shared its habitat with the woolly mammoth, the scimitar cat, short-faced bears, the steppe bison and the camel. The Ice Age Horse crossed the Bering Land Bridge into Asia. The changing conditions brought about by the last glaciation may have caused the extinction of the horse in North America more than 10,000 years ago. The domesticated horse found in the Old World was reintroduced into the New World by European explorers.
There were two kinds of horses in Alaska during the late Pleistocene: true horses
Equus ferus
and the ass-like
Equus hemonius
.  Like steppe bison, both horse species were grazers and spread across Eurasia and into Alaska.  Judging from Siberian Pleistocene mummies,
Eqquus ferus
looked similar to the wild Asiatic horse which had a reddish-brown body with a black upright mane and black tail and legs.
Judging from the occurrence of their fossils,
Equus ferus
inhabited the lowland areas whereas
Equus hemonius
preferred the upland areas.  Both species declined in Alaska prior to 11,000 years ago but continued to exist into modern times in central Asia. Domestic horses were bred from
Equus ferus
in the Middle East about 3,000 years ago.
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