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Author:   László Bartosiewicz ,  Alice M Choyke ,  Susan Grant ,  Sandra L Olsen
Publisher:   BAR Publishing
Imprint:   BAR Publishing
Volume:   No. 1560
Dimensions:   Width: 21.00cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 29.70cm
Weight:   1.563kg
ISBN:  

9781841719900

ISBN 10:   1841719900
Pages:   392
Publication Date:   15 November 2006
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"1) Last Horses and First Humans in North America (S. David Webb and C. Andrew Hemmings); 2) Horse Hunting in Central Europe at the Endof the Pleistocene (Dixie West); 3) Juggling with Indices: A Review of the Evidence and Interpretations Regarding Upper Palaeolithic Horse Skeletal Part Abundance (Alan K. Outram); 4) Human-Horse Relations Using Paleolithic Art: Pleistocene Horses Drawn From Life (R. Dale Guthrie); 5) Early Horse Domestication: Weighing the Evidence (Sandra L. Olsen); 6) The Equid Remains from Neolithic Catalhoyuk, Central Anatolia: A Preliminary Report (Louise Martin and Nerissa Russell); 7) The Human-Horse Relationshipon the European-Asian Border in the Neolithic and Early Iron Age (Pavel A. Kosintsev); 8) Early Horseback Riding and Warfare in the Steppes: the Importance of the Magpie Around the Neck (David Anthony and Dorcas Brown); 9) ""Cimmerian"" Bridles: Progress in Cavalry Technology? (Ute Dietz); 10) Horse Control and the Bit (Gail Brownrigg); 11) The Chariot in Bronze Age Funerary Rites of the Eurasian Steppes (E. A. Cherlenok); 12) The Evolution of the Chariot (Karlene Jones-Bley); 13) Late Prehistoric Exploitation of Horses in Central Germany and Neighboring Areas - the Archaeozoological Record (Norbert Benecke); 14) Neolithic Human Impact and Wild Horses in Germany and Switzerland: Horse Size Variability and the Chrono-Ecological Context (Karlheinz Steppan); 15) The Social and Economic Context for Domestic Horse Origins in Southeastern Europe: A View from Ljuljaci in the Central Balkans (Haskel Greenfield); 16) Problems and Possibilities in Reconstructing Scandinavian Saddles of the Migration Period (Ulrike Mayer-Kuester); 17) Mythological Treatment of the Horse in Indo-European Culture (Elena Kuzmina); 18) The Stature of Horses in Armenian Bronze and Early Iron Age Burials (Ninna Manaseryan); 19) Horse Husbandry Among Early Iron Age Trans-Ural Societies (Ludmila Koryakova and Bryan K. Hanks); 20) The Khan's Mule: Attitudes toward a Forgotten Animal (Laszlo Bartosiewicz); 21) Imaging the Horse in Early China: From the Table to the Stable (Katheryn Linduff); 22) Iron Age Harness Fittings Along the Silk Route (Trudy S. Kawami); 23) Windhorses and Dharma Warriors: The Religious, Historical, and Cultural Relevance of Horse Protection Rituals in Mustang, Nepal (Sienna R. Craig); 24) Tibetan 'Horse Books' from the High Himalayas (Petra Maurer and Angela von den Driesch); 25) The Horse as Technology - the City Animal as Cyborg (Clay McShane and Joel Tarr)."

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