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Equids and wheeled vehicles in the ancient world
vii, 224 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 30 cm
"The essays in this volume were originally presented at a symposium in honour of Mary Aiken Littauer, la grand dame de l'hippologie ancienne. The papers consider subjects and material of interest to her, including the chariot, harnessing and equipment, horse breeds and the advent of horsemanship across ancient Europe, Africa and Asia"--Page 4 of cover.
PART I. Introduction. Mary Aiken Littauer and our study of ancient horse-drawn vehicles / Joost H. Crouwel -- Hommage to Mary Aiken Littauer / Peter Raulwing -- PART II. Equines and wheeled vehicles in the Near East. Wheeled vehicles and their draught animals in the ancient Near East : an update / Joost H. Crouwel -- Some notes on pictograms interpreted as sledges and wheeled vehicles in the archaic texts from Uruk / Stefan Burmeister, Theo J. H. Krispijn and Peter Raulwing -- Equids in Mesopotamia : a short ride through selected textual sources / Joachim Marzahn -- Harnessing the chariot horse / Gail Brownrigg -- That strange equid from Susa / Trudy S. Kawami -- The use of equines in archaeological research : a new methology combining ancient DNA and trace element analysis tested on Israeli equines from ca. 900-1200 BCE / Gila Kahila Bar-Gal, Lia Hadas, Hadas Motro, Amit Reem, Reuven Amitai, Ronnie Ellenblum, Michael Haahr Friis,Kurt Villads Jensen and Kaare Lund Rasmussen -- PART III. The horse's arrival in north Africa and Arabia. Northern Africa : equestrian penetration of the Sahara and the Sahel and its impact on adjacent regions / Pita Kelekna -- Napatan horses and the horse cemetery at El-Kurru, Sudan / Denise Doxey -- Horses, asses, hybrids, and their use as revealed in the ancient rock art of the Syro-Arabian desert / Michael C. E. Macdonald -- PART IV. The horse in ancient Asia. The heavenly horses visualized in Han China (220 BCE-220 CE) / Katheryn M. Linduff -- Emperor Tang Taizong's six stone horse reliefs and Sasanian art / Xiuqin Zhou.
edited by Peter Raulwing, Katheryn M. Linduff and Joost H. Crouwel.
Includes bibliographical references and index.