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With the introduction of the horse into Mesopotamia, early in the second millennium B.C., the onager disappears from the list of animals in the service of man.

— Frederick Zeuner

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This position is significant, since the low- lands of north-western Asia were almost certainly populated by wild horses. It is conceivable that domestication may have begun in such an area.

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