Chariots in Antiquity : Essays in Honour of Joost Crouwel

by: Raulwing, P. Burmeister, S. Brownrigg, G. Linduff, K.M.

Chariots in Antiquity
Essays in Honour of Joost Crouwel

Description
This volume of essays honours Joost Crouwel, a leading expert on wheeled transport in antiquity. The editors and contributors are internationally acclaimed specialists, who share their ideas, observations, and research by exploring the many facets associated with chariots: their equipment, horses and harnesses, cultural exchanges, iconography, and the outlook of the people who rode in them.

The topics represent many areas of expertise: art historians, archaeologists, and linguists from Taiwan, Russia, Ukraine, Germany, Kazakhstan, Canada and the USA, a master wheelwright, a horse expert from the UK. Their specialist essays make an innovative and wide-ranging contribution to research across a wide spectrum of interests and areas of the ancient world.

The contributions showcase diverse ways in which early chariots were utilised across Southeastern Europe, Eastern Europe/Central Asia, East Asia, Anatolia, the ancient Near East and Egypt. Notably, there is a time span of over 700 years separating the earliest occurrences of innovations in East Europe from those in East Asia. The book explores a wide range of technological solutions employed in the construction of these chariots as well as the history of chariotry.

By presenting new insights into the chronological evolution, contextual occurrences, and manufacturing techniques of early chariots, this volume serves as a companion to Equids and Wheeled Vehicles in the Ancient World: Essays in Memory of Mary A. Littauer (BAR Publishing, 2019) edited by Peter Raulwing, Katheryn M. Linduff and Joost H. Crouwel.

AUTHOR
Contributors: Miriam Bibby, Vadim S. Bochkarev, Nikolaus Boroffka, Gail Brownrigg, Stefan Burmeister, Igor Chechuschkov, Tess Doorewaard, Andrey Epimakhov, Robert Hurford, Salima Ikram, Elena Izbitser, Pavel Kuznetsov, Katheryn M. Linduff, Viktor Novozhenov, Peter Raulwing, Theo van den Hout, André Veldmeijer, Steven Weingartner, Hsiao-yun Wu, Xiaolong Wu and Robin Yates.

REVIEW
?This original work provides a broad vista from disparate geographical regions concerned with chariots and horses. The editors have assembled a scintillating, informative, and highly challenging study written by many experts. The quality is excellent.? Emeritus Professor Anthony Spalinger, University of Auckland

?The present publication constitutes the most important collection of papers on the early history of chariots published in decades.? Professor Joseph Maran, Heidelberg University

Contents
Part I
1. Introduction................................................................................................................................................................... 3
Editors
2. Joost H. Crouwel as a Teacher....................................................................................................................................11
Tess Doorewaard
3. In Search of the Origins of the Chariot: Wrong Turns, Dead Ends, and Long and Winding Roads.................. 15
Stefan Burmeister and Peter Raulwing
4. Research on Chariots in Slavic Studies: A Brief Overview..................................................................................... 47
Elena Izbitser
Part II
Egypt, Near East, the Balkans, the Steppes, China in the
2nd millenium BCE and later developments
5. Leather: An Integral Part of Chariots...................................................................................................................... 61
André J. Veldmeijer and Salima Ikram
6. ?They Shall Henceforth Be Fed in my Presence?: Observations on the Training and Treatment
of Chariot Horses in Ancient Egypt .......................................................................................................................... 67
Miriam A. Bibby
7. The Egyptian ?Check Rowel? – A New Interpretation of its Purpose..................................................................... 83
Gail Brownrigg
8. Another Storm God ?Jumping? on his Vehicle? Remarks on the Sketch on KUB 20.76 ...................................... 89
Theo van den Hout
9. Bone Cheekpieces and Spoked Wheels – Chariots in the Carpathian Region.................................................... 103
Nikolaus G. O. Boroffka
10. Archaeological Evidence for the Horse-Drawn Chariot from Inner Eurasia..................................................... 125
Igor V. Chechushkov and Andrey V. Epimakhov
11. Early Cheekpieces in Eurasia ................................................................................................................................. 151
Vadim S. Bochkarev and Pavel F. Kuznetsov
12. Chariots on the Central Asian Rocks: The Dating Problem................................................................................ 179
Viktor Novozhenov
13. When Chariots Were First Known in China: Early Cheekpiece Development
in the Late Shang Dynasty Around 1250 BCE ...................................................................................................... 199
Hsiao-yun Wu
14. Early Chinese Chariots, Carriages, and Carts in War and Peace: Evidence from New Textual
and Archaeological Sources..................................................................................................................................... 215
Robin D. S. Yates
15. Majiayuan Chariots and the Lustre of Eurasia .................................................................................................... 231
Xiaolong Wu and Katheryn M. Linduf
Part III
Chariot Findings, Chariots in Action, Their Construction,
and Experimental Archaeology
16. The Ancient V-spoked Chariot Wheel: Why was It Made that Way? Some Thoughts Based
on Some Observations and the Experience of Making Chariot Reconstructions.............................................. 245
Robert Hurford
17. Jean Spruytte – Horseman, Scholar, Chariot Builder.......................................................................................... 255
Gail Brownrigg
18. Some Observations on Chariotry and Chariot Warfare in the Near Eastern
Late Bronze Age and the Battle of Kadesh............................................................................................................ 273
Steven Weingartner
Index................................................................................................................................................................................ 313

Chariots in Antiquity : Essays in Honour of Joost Crouwel

by: Raulwing, P. Burmeister, S. Brownrigg, G. Linduff, K.M.

• ISBN-13: 9781407361178 / 978-1-4073-6117-8
• ISBN-03: 1407361171 / 1-4073-6117-1
• Bar Publishing, Oxford, 2023