But, as has been already pointed out, the horse had to be tamed first.

Palaeolithic man in western Europe had horse-meat in abundance.

At Solutre, a little north of Lyons, a heap of food-refuse 100 yards long and 10 feet high largely consists of the bones of horses, most of them young and tender.

This shows that the old hunters knew how to enjoy the passing hour in their improvident way, like the equally reckless Bushmen, who have left similar Golgothas behind them in South Africa.

Yet apparently palaeolithic man did not tame the horse.