Prehistoric Steppe Adaptation and the Horse

by: Levine, M. Renfrew, C. Boyle, K.

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Prehistoric steppe adaptation and the horse
Authors:Marsha Levine, Colin Renfrew, Katherine V. Boyle, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research

Summary:The domestication of the horse was one of the most significant events in the development of human societies, ushering in new modes transport and warfare and generating social and political change. This volume seeks to examine the origins of horse husbandry and pastoralism - especially nomadic pastoralism - in the Eurasian steppe. In bringing together archaeologists and archaeozoologists from Asia, Europe, and North America it provides 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 here 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.

Series:
McDonald Institute monographs

xii, 428 pages : illustrations, maps ; 30 cm.

Contents:
Focusing on central Eurasian archaeology: East meets West / Marsha Levine
Steppe and forest-steppe belt of Eurasia: Holocene environmental history / Konstantin V. Kremenetski
Green grows the steppe: how can grassland ecology increase our understanding of human-plant interactions and the origins of agriculture? / Mim A. Bower
Organic residue analysis of lipids in potsherds from the early Neolithic settlement of Botai, Kazakhstan / Stephanie N. Dudd, Richard P. Evershed, & Marsha Levine
Eneolithic horse rituals and riding in the steppes: new evidence / David W. Anthony & Dorcus R. Brown
Horse exploitation in the Kazakh steppes during the Eneolithic and Bronze Age / Norbert Benecke & Angela von den Driesch
The exploitation of horses at Botai, Kazakhstan / Sandra L. Olsen
Geomorphological and micromorphological investigations of palaeosols, valley sediments, and a sunken-floored dwelling at Botai, Kazakhstan / Charly French & Maria Kousoulakou
A note on the early evidence for horse in western Asia / Joan Oates
Were the donkeys at Tell Brak (Syria) harnessed with a bit? / Juliet Clutton-Brock
Equids in the northern part of the Iranian central plateau from the Neolithic to Iron Age: new zoogeographic evidence / Marjan Mashkour
A walk on the wild side: late Shang appropriation of horses in China / Kathryn M. Linduff
The horse in late prehistoric China: wresting culture and control from the 'barbarians' / Victor H. Mair
Horseback riding: man's access to speed? / Ute Luise Dietz
Origins of pastoralism in the Eurasian steppes / Elena E. Kuzmina
The horse and the wheel: the dialects of change in the circum-Pontic region and adjacent areas, 4500-1500 BC / Andrew Sherratt
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
Correlations between agriculture and pastoralism in the northern Pontic steppe area during the Bronze Age / Kateryna P. Bunyatyan
Palaeoethnobotanical evidence of agriculture in the steppe and the forest-steppe of east Europe in the late Neolithic and Bronze Age / Galina Pashkevich
First cattle-breeders of the Azov-Pontic steppes / Volodymyr N. Stanko
Farmers and pastoralists of the Pontic lowland during the late Bronze Age / Yakov P. Gershkovich
The economic peculiarities of the Srubnaya cultural-historical entity / Vitaliy V. Otroshchenko
Srubnaya fauna and beyond: a critical assessment of the archaezoological information from the east European steppe / Arturo Morales Muįz & Ekaterina Antipina
Yamnaya culture pastoral exploitation: a local sequence / Natalia I. Shishlina
Problems of inhabiting central Eurasia: Mesolithic-Eneolithic exploitation of the central Eurasian steppes / Gerald Matyushin
The steppes of the Urals and Kazakhstan during the late Bronze Age / Svetlana Zdanovich

Papers from a symposium, Late Prehistoric Exploitation of the Eurasian Steppe, Cambridge University, January 2000

Prehistoric Steppe Adaptation and the Horse

by: Levine, M. Renfrew, C. Boyle, K.

• ISBN-13: 9781902937090 / 978-1-902937-09-0
• ISBN-03: 1902937090 / 1-902937-09-0
• McDonald Institute Monographs, Cambridge, 2003

Price: 89,00 EURO

1 copy in stock