Krasnyi Yar, Kazakhstan

Krasnyi Yar is an eneolithic site of the Botai culture in Kazakhstan [1]. This large site is significant for the early use of horses there [1]. Horse meat was eaten, but horses were also kept as livestock [1]. The only livestock bones found at the site were from horses, so the inference by the researchers is that horses were held in corrals at the site [1]. Horse-bone tools indicate leather production, suggesting horse tack [1].