anthropologically

Updated: May 4, 2025

Anthropologically they belonged, like the Tunguses, to the Mongol race. The typical animal of this group soon became the horse. The horse seems to be the last of the great animals to be domesticated, and the date of its first occurrence in domesticated form in the Far East is not yet determined, but we can assume that by 2500 B.C. this group was already in the possession of horses.

Wolfram Eberhard - A History of China