Monthly Meeting

A Special Program in honor of

Archaeology and Historic Presentation Month

We welcome Dr. William T. Taylor, archaeologist,

scientist, and author presenting a FREE public lecture,

Rethinking the Origins of Horse Domestication and

its Impact on the Ancient World.

Note the change of venue, date, and time

for this presentation:

Saturday, May 3, 2025 at 5:00 PM

in the Hoag Auditorium at Pueblo

Community College, 900 W. Orman

The domestication of the horse is widely understood as

one of the most significant events in human history -

with horse transport linked to drastic changes in

ecology, communication, culture, ceremony, and even

the very structure of societies across the ancient world.

But how did this transformative relationship between

people and horses first emerge? New discoveries from

archaeological sciences are overturning long-held assumptions about the timing and process of the

first domestication, revealing a process that was far more rapid - and far more disruptive than

previously understood.

Dr. William T. Taylor is the author of Hoof Beats: How Horses Shaped Human History and an

Assistant Professor and Curator of Archaeology at the University of Colorado-Boulder. His work

explores the domestication of the horse and the ancient relationships between people and animals

through archaeozoology and archaeological science.

Dr. Taylor received his Ph.D. with distinction from the University of New Mexico in 2017. His

scholarship has been published in top-tier scientific journals including Science and Proceedings of the

National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), and has been funded by international granting agencies from

National Geographic to the National Science Foundation. Taylor's research was awarded the Popejoy

Prize from the University of New Mexico and his collaborative work with LIU scientists received the

2024 Newcomb Cleveland Prize from the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

PAHS will be meeting both in person in the Hoag Auditorium at Pueblo Community College, 900 W. Orman,

and live-streaming the presentation via Zoom. If you are joining online, here is the link:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88271097490

The link will be activated at 4:30 PM. The program is scheduled to start at 5:00 PM. Click on the link above to