The great importance of the domestic horse in human history and culture has long made it a
significant subject of research. The historical role of the horse and new studies and …

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

This study aimed to characterize the sperm kinematic values with high frames per second, to
define the subpopulation structure of a horse and a donkey and compare them. A total of 57 …

Donkeys facilitated trade and transport in much of the ancient world, but were seldom used
in elite or leisure activities. While Tang Dynasty (AD 618–907) texts indicate that noble …

The problem of horse domestication allows us to suppose different scenarios that could be
realized in the 4th–3rd millennia BC in various regions where the wild horse lived (Europe …

Some changes observed on human bones can be related to activities practiced during life.
Scholars have considered the reconstruction of activities from skeletal changes in past …

A few years ago, a domestic donkey (Equus asinus), or ass, was discovered at Tell eṣ-
Ṣafi/Gath in modern Israel and determined to have been sacrificed and buried as a …

Simple Summary The goal of this study is to increase our understanding of the role of ritual
in the domestic residences of commoners in early complex societies in the ancient Near …

Horse riding, a determinant activity in the history of human cultural evolution, remains
unreliably identifiable from the analysis of human skeletal remains due to various sample …

Presenting a new perspective on human–animal relations in the ancient Near East, this
volume considers how we should understand equids (horses, donkeys, onagers and various …