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Prehistoric steppe adaptation and the horse / edited by Marsha Levine, Colin Renfrew & Katie Boyle.
Penn Museum Library QE882.U6 P74 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- McDonald Institute monographs
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Horses--Eurasia--History.
- Horses.
- Pastoral systems, Prehistoric--Eurasia.
- Pastoral systems, Prehistoric.
- Steppe ecology--Eurasia.
- Steppe ecology.
- History.
- Eurasia.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 428 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 2003.
- Summary:
- The domestication of the horse was one of the most significant events in the development of many human societies, ushering in new modes of transport and warfare and generating social and political change. This volume examines the origins of horse husbandry and pastoralism - especially nomadic pastoralism - in the Eurasian steppe. It brings together archaeologists and archaeozoologists from Asia, Europe and North America to provide a wide-ranging overview of issues and evidence for the development of Central European societies from the Neolithic to the Iron Age. Much of the material is made available in English for the first time. The issues surrounding the domestication of the horse are set firmly within the broader context of steppe ecology and human subsistence, and with the development of pastoral economies across this crucial geographical zone.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Focusing on Central Eurasian Archaeology: East Meets West / Marsha Levine 1
- Part I Environment and Ecology
- Chapter 2 Steppe and Forest-steppe Belt of Eurasia: Holocene Environmental History / Konstantin V. Kremenetski 11
- Chapter 3 Green Grows the Steppe: How can Grassland Ecology Increase our Understanding of Human-Plant Interactions and the Origins of Agriculture / Mim A. Bower 29
- Part II Horse Exploitation on the Eurasian Steppe
- Chapter 4 Organic Residue Analysis of Lipids in Potsherds from the Early Neolithic Settlement of Botai, Kazakhstan / Stephanie N. Dudd, Richard P. Evershed, Marsha Levine 45
- Chapter 5 Eneolithic Horse Rituals and Riding in the Steppes: New Evidence / David W. Anthony, Dorcus R. Brown 55
- Chapter 6 Horse Exploitation in the Kazakh Steppes during the Eneolithic and Bronze Age / Norbert Benecke, Angela von den Driesch 69
- Chapter 7 The Exploitation of Horses at Botai, Kazakhstan / Sandra L. Olsen 83
- Chapter 8 Geomorphological and Micromorphological Investigations of Palaeosols, Valley Sediments and a Sunken-floored Dwelling at Botai, Kazakhstan / Charly French, Maria Kousoulakou 105
- Chapter 9 A Note on the Early Evidence for Horse in Western Asia / Joan Oates 115
- Were the Donkeys at Tell Brak (Syria) Harnessed with a Bit? / Juliet Clutton-Brock 126
- Chapter 10 Equids in the Northern Part of the Iranian Central Plateau from the Neolithic to Iron Age: New Zoogeographic Evidence / Marjan Mashkour 129
- Chapter 11 A Walk on the Wild Side: Late Shang Appropriation of Horses in China / Kathryn M. Linduff 139
- Chapter 12 The Horse in Late Prehistoric China: Wresting Culture and Control from the 'Barbarians' / Victor H. Mair 163
- Chapter 13 Horseback Riding: Man's Access to Speed? / Ute Luise Dietz 189
- Part III Subsistence and the Origins of Pastoralism
- Chapter 14 Origins of Pastoralism in the Eurasian Steppes / Elena E. Kuzmina 203
- Chapter 15 The Horse and the Wheel: the Dialectics of Change in the Circum-Pontic Region and Adjacent Areas, 4500-1500 BC / Andrew Sherratt 233
- Chapter 16 The Importance of Fish in the Diet of Central Eurasian Peoples from the Mesolithic to the Early Iron Age / Tamsin O'Connell, Marsha Levine, Robert Hedges 253
- Chapter 17 Correlations between Agriculture and Pastoralism in the Northern Pontic Steppe Area during the Bronze Age / Kateryna P. Bunyatyan 269
- Chapter 18 Palaeoethnobotanical Evidence of Agriculture in the Steppe and the Forest-steppe of East Europe in the Late Neolithic and Bronze Age / Galina Pashkevich 287
- Chapter 19 First Cattle-breeders of the Azov-Pontic Steppes / Volodymyr N. Stanko 299
- Chapter 20 Farmers and Pastoralists of the Pontic Lowland during the Late Bronze Age / Yakov P. Gershkovich 307
- Chapter 21 The Economic Peculiarities of the Srubnaya Cultural-historical Entity / Vitaliy V. Otroshchenko 319
- Chapter 22 Srubnaya Fauna and Beyond: a Critical Assessment of the Archaezoological Information from the East European Steppe / Arturo Morales Muniz, Ekaterina Antipina 329
- Chapter 23 Yamnaya Culture Pastoral Exploitation: a Local Sequence / Natalia I. Shishlina 353
- Chapter 24 Problems of Inhabiting Central Eurasia: Mesolithic-Eneolithic Exploitation of the Central Eurasian Steppes / Gerald Matyushin 367
- Chapter 25 The Steppes of the Urals and Kazakhstan during the Late Bronze Age / Svetlana Zdanovich 395.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1902937090 :
- OCLC:
- 55982509
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