{"id":7757,"date":"2018-07-04T09:54:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-04T15:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=7757"},"modified":"2019-03-20T12:10:07","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T18:10:07","slug":"horses-had-dentists-3000-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/horses-had-dentists-3000-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Horses Had Dentists 3,000 Years Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"parbase smartbody section text\">\n<p>Just like humans, horses can have tooth problems that make them ornery and sap their productivity. So to keep their horses in top shape, Mongolian herders started experimenting with equine dentistry more than 3,000 years ago, according to new archaeological evidence published today in the <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/early\/2018\/06\/26\/1721189115\">Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"parbase smartbody section text\">\n<p>These \u201cincredible innovations\u201d in horse healthcare \u201ccame right alongside what looks like the emergence of horse riding,\u201d says archaeologist and grantee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shh.mpg.de\/person\/51853\/398736\">William Taylor<\/a> of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. His findings suggest that horse dental care may have helped nomadic people travel across larger distances on healthier mounts and, eventually, effectively control horses as weapons of war.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"parbase smartbody section text\">\n<p>To read the rest of the story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/science\/2018\/07\/news-horse-veterinary-dentist-Mongolia-archaeology\/\">click here<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Mongolian herders started experimenting with equine dentistry more than 3,000 years ago<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,53,14,31],"tags":[1005,1004,1003],"class_list":["post-7757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-equine-dental","category-equinews","category-industry","category-veterinary-medicine","tag-horse-dental-care","tag-horse-healthcare","tag-mongolian-steppe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7757"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8127,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7757\/revisions\/8127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}