A lecture by Professor of Zooarchaeology of the University of Exeter (UK) Alan Outram was held at Toraighyrov University at the invitation of the Director of the Center for Archaeological Research Viktor Mertz.

Alan Outram gave a lecture to our students and teachers on the domestication of the horse and the role of Botai in the study of this process, shared the latest research results related to the evidence of an early form of horse domestication in the North Kazakhstan steppes.
The professor said that he plans to stay here for further joint work with Viktor Merz, and Alan Outram also noted that Toraighyrov University has long been involved in international projects that study the problems of neolithization and the formation of a productive economy in the steppe zone of Eurasia.

 - I must say that our archaeologists have been working for many years on the materials of Neolithic and Eneolithic monuments, which date back to the 5th-4th centuries BC.  These are such well-known archaeological sites as Botai, Borly and many others, where the remains of the most ancient types of domestic horses were once discovered.  The results of the work of Pavlodar scientists were published in high-ranking scientific journals "Science", "Nature" and "Cell", - said the rector of the university Yerkin Sadykov.