Horse in the Ancient World Willekes Carolyn
Horse in the Ancient World Willekes Carolyn The domestication of the horse in the fourth millennium BC altered the course of mankind's future. Carolyn Willekes traces the early history of the horse…
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Horse in the Ancient World Willekes Carolyn
The domestication of the horse in the fourth millennium BC altered the course of mankind's future. Carolyn Willekes traces the early history of the horse through a combination of equine iconography, literary representations, fieldwork and archaeological theory. Formerly a source only of meat, horses now became the prime mode of fast transport as well as a versatile weapon of war.
Establishing a regional typology of ancient horses--Mediterranean, Central Asian and Near Eastern--the author discerns within these categories several distinct sub-types. She explores the ways in which horses were used in the ancient world, whether in regular cavalry formations, harnessed to chariots, as a means of reconnaissance, in swift and deadly skirmishing (such as by Scythian archers) or as the key mode of mobility. Explaining how the physical characteristics of each type influenced its use on the
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