A “Quite Bad” Drawing Found in Cuenca Uncovers the Oldest Proof of the Use of Stirrup in the West

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Back in the 5th century AD, one of the inhabitants of what today is the excavation area of El Pulpón, in Carrascosa del Campo, saw a rider using stirrups and impressed him so much that he recorded it in a brick. This element, until then unpublished in Western Europe, allowed the development of the military heavy cavalry OF SCIENCE - Research in a Guadalajara site reveals social networks of thousands of kilometers during the Upper Paleolithic Ima…