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“It’s really a new page in the horse trade.”

The governor, House speaker and Senate president “still do horse trade,” said John Hallman, legislative director of the Republican Liberty Caucus of Florida, a conservative advocacy group.

“A Rocky Mountain trade chain had carried horses to the Northwestern Plains by the 1730s. … The horse trade ignited a technological revolution that reconfigured several Indigenous worlds within a generation.”

That’s why any deal could have a huge impact on researchers, because it boils down to a political horse trade.

The researchers saw the robustness of the bones decline in the early 16th century, which would coincide with a decline in the British horse trade.