Among the most widely used methods for understanding human-horse relationships in the
archaeological record is the identification of human skeletal pathologies associated with …

Horses were initially managed and domesticated in Central Asia during the Neolithic period
for their utilization as a source of sustenance and transportation. Subsequently, they came to …

Horses have had a singular impact on human societies. Beyond increasing interconnectivity
and revolutionizing warfare, reconfigurations of human-horse relationships coincide with …

Horses and chariots—and the associated technology and expertise—derived from the
steppe contributed to the success of the Zhou conquest of the Shang in c. 1045 BC and …

Animals often acquire ritual and symbolic significance when incorporated into mortuary
contexts in human society. In Bronze Age China, horses and chariots were frequently …

Simple Summary The work is the first comprehensive analysis of equine pathological
changes from the Polish territory. The research material was collected from 20 …

The findings of Librado et al.(2021) show that modern domestic horses (DOM2) emerged in
the lower Don-Volga region. They imply that horseback riding drove selection that resulted …

While few places on earth have been as deeply impacted by the human-horse relationship
as the steppes of Mongolia and eastern Eurasia, gaps in the archaeological record have …

In China, it is a conclusive fact that domestic horses had already appeared by the Late
Shang period. Regarding their utilisation by humans, osteological and pathological …

Studded disc-shaped cheekpieces were elements of the bridle used to control chariot
horses in the Pokrovsk-Abashevo and Sintashta-Petrovka cultures (late 3rd and early 2nd …