Equids and wheeled vehicles in the ancient world : essays in memory of Mary A. Littauer
| 1. Verfasser: |
Raulwing, Peter
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, [HerausgeberIn]
Linduff, Katheryn M. , [VerfasserIn] , [HerausgeberIn] Crouwel, J. H , [VerfasserIn] , [HerausgeberIn] |
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Oxford :
BAR Publishing,
2019.
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| Umfang/Format: |
vii, 224 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 30 cm. |
| Schriftenreihe: |
BAR international series
2923 |
| ISBN: | 9781407316437 |
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| Parallelausgabe: |
Please click below (Online version) Equids and wheeled vehicles in the ancient world (Online version) |
| 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.
