吃马肉的行为经历了一个忽上忽下的历程。回望石器时代，旧世界的狩猎者以野马肉大饱口福。首先驯养了马匹的那些亚洲游牧民族继续品尝着马肉，就像前基督时代的北欧民族一样。对马肉的禁忌最初是和古代中东帝国的兴起而一同产生的。罗马人也拒绝吃马肉，而且在中世纪早期，当 The behavior of eating horse meat experienced a sudden ups and downs of the course. Looking back to the Stone Age, hunters in the Old World filled their horses with wild horses. First, the nomadic Asian nomads that domesticated horses continued to taste horse meat just as the Nordic nations of the pre-Christian era did. Taboo on horse meat originated with the rise of the ancient Middle East empire. The Romans also refuse to eat horse meat, and in the early Middle Ages, when