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Horses and Humans: the Evolution of Human/Equine Relationships

edited by Sandra L. Olsen, Susan Grant, Alice M. Choyke, and László Bartosiewicz

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the Horses and Humans Symposium, held in 2000 at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pennsylvania. The four-day symposium brought together academics from Europe, Asia and America from the disciplines of archaeology, art history, history, paleontology, biology, veterinary medicine, animal husbandry and other fields. 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 End of 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 Çatalhöyük, Central Anatolia: A Preliminary Report (Louise Martin and Nerissa Russell); 7) The Human-Horse Relationship on 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 Khans Mule: Attitudes toward a Forgotten Animal (László 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). 375p, illus. (Archaeopress 2006)

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