Horses were domesticated around 3000 BC; the Yamnaya invaded Europe around the same time. Today we are relearning the limits of circumstantial evidence; this blog recorded hints of the present study, three years ago.
To repeat: the first domesticate horses were of the Botai. These were not the horses which the Yamnaya and, then, R1a-'ryans would use out East. This means that the Yamnaya migrations didn't use horses, as Botai might. Horses came to the post-Yamnaya Europe, later: the 2200s BC. And to Anatolia later.
The pedestrian Yamnaya invasion still must be explained. A culture able to traverse the distance beyond local clan, I think. Even without horses and chariots, the humble cart - handdrawn - could scale up commerce and migration. Also: how about donkeys and oxen?
Anyway as B. Breathed noted of "having your cake and eating it", "cart before the horse" needs to be retired as a dead cliché.
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