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  title info:
    title: Equids and wheeled vehicles in the ancient world
    sub title: essays in memory of Mary A. Littauer
  name:
    name part: Littauer, M. A.
    role:
      role term: honouree.
  name:
    name part: Raulwing, Peter
    role:
      role term: author,
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Linduff, Katheryn M.
    role:
      role term: author,
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Crouwel, J. H.
    role:
      role term: author,
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: conference publication
  genre: biography
  genre: Conference papers and proceedings.
  genre: Festschriften.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: vii, 224 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 30 cm
  abstract: "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.
  table of contents: 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.
  note: edited by Peter Raulwing, Katheryn M. Linduff and Joost H. Crouwel.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: aw-----
    geographic code: a-cc---
  subject:
    topic: Chariots
    geographic: Middle East
    topic: History
    temporal: To 622
    genre: Congresses
  subject:
    topic: Chariots
    geographic: China
    topic: History
    temporal: 221 B.C.-960 A.D
    genre: Congresses
  subject:
    topic: Harnesses
    geographic: Middle East
    topic: History
    temporal: To 622
    genre: Congresses
  subject:
    topic: Harnesses
    geographic: China
    topic: History
    temporal: 221 B.C.-960 A.D
    genre: Congresses
  subject:
    topic: Equidae
    geographic: Middle East
    topic: History
    temporal: To 622
    genre: Congresses
  subject:
    topic: Equidae
    geographic: China
    topic: History
    temporal: 221 B.C.-960 A.D
    genre: Congresses
  subject:
    topic: War horses
    geographic: Middle East
    topic: History
    temporal: To 622
    genre: Congresses
  subject:
    topic: War horses
    geographic: China
    topic: History
    temporal: 221 B.C.-960 A.D
    genre: Congresses
  subject:
    topic: Chariots in art
    genre: Congresses
  subject:
    topic: Horses in art
    genre: Congresses
  subject:
    geographic: Middle East
    topic: Antiquities
    genre: Congresses
  subject:
    geographic: China
    topic: Antiquities
    genre: Congresses
  classification: TS2010 .E75 2019
  classification: GT5283.M5 E75 2019
  classification: 636.10093
  related item:
    title info:
      title: BAR international series ; 2923
  identifier: 1407316435
  identifier: 9781407316437
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 190325
    record change date: 20190718163626.0
    record identifier: in00004077241
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng