Horse Names: A "Wild Horse-Chase"?

So, did the ancient Greek reporters send us on a “wild horse-chase”? Maybe. But I tend to think that where there’s smoke, there’s fire.
From Melanippe to Marc, we have discovered quite a few horse names. The problem being that all but one of them belong to quasi-mythological Amazon warriors. There is a Grand Canyon-sized gap in the Scythian culture, where we have names, but none pertaining to horses. The Picts have also provided us with a name, but only one. Both the Scythian and Pictish languages also leave something to be desired, in that very little of them remains to us. Tough to compare names when you have a plethora in one language, none in the next, and only one in the third and final language.
Hmmm…. Maybe all that leaves us with is the old, archaeological adage: “Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.”
Or maybe the question becomes: Do we have other evidence demonstrating the importance of horses to these cultures and thus their cultural connectivity to one another? Let’s start with something we do have ample evidence for in all three cultures: cavalry.

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