Equids and wheeled vehicles in the ancient world : essays in memory of Mary A. Littauer

1. Verfasser: Raulwing, Peter , [HerausgeberIn]
Linduff, Katheryn M. , [HerausgeberIn]
Crouwel, J. H , [HerausgeberIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Oxford : BAR Publishing, 2019.
Umfang/Format: vii, 224 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 30 cm.
Schriftenreihe: BAR international series 2923
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Inhalte/Bestandteile: 13 Datensätze
Inhaltsangabe:
  • 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.