Horses and Humans: the Evolution of Human/Equine Relationships (bar s)

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the Horses and Humans Symposium, held in 2000 at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pennsylvania. The four-day symposium brought together academics from Europe, Asia and America from the disciplines of archaeology, art history, history, paleontology, biology, veterinary medicine, animal husbandry and other fields. Contents: 1) Last Horses and First Humans in North America (S. David Webb and C. Andrew Hemmings); 2) Horse Hunting in Central Europe at the End of the Pleistocene (Dixie West); 3) Juggling with Indices: A Review of the Evidence and Interpretations Regarding Upper Palaeolithic Horse Skeletal Part Abundance (Alan K. Outram); 4) Human-Horse Relations Using Paleolithic Art: Pleistocene Horses Drawn From Life (R. Dale Guthrie); 5) Early Horse Domestication: Weighing the Evidence (Sandra L. Olsen); 6) The Equid Remains from Neolithic Catalhoyuk, Central Anatolia: A Preliminary Report (Louise Martin and Nerissa Russell); 7) The Human-Horse Relationship on the European-Asian Border in the Neolithic and Early Iron Age (Pavel A. Kosintsev); 8) Early Horseback Riding and Warfare in the Steppes: the Importance of the Magpie Around the Neck (David Anthony and Dorcas Brown); 9) Cimmerian Bridles: Progress in Cavalry Technology? (Ute Dietz); 10) Horse Control and the Bit (Gail Brownrigg); 11) The Chariot in Bronze Age Funerary Rites of the Eurasian Steppes (E. A. Cherlenok); 12) The Evolution of the Chariot (Karlene Jones-Bley); 13) Late Prehistoric Exploitation of Horses in Central Germany and Neighboring Areas the Archaeozoological Record (Norbert Benecke); 14) Neolithic Human Impact and Wild Horses in Germany and Switzerland: Horse Size Variability and the Chrono-Ecological Context (Karlheinz Steppan); 15) The Social and Economic Context for Domestic Horse Origins in Southeastern Europe: A View from Ljuljaci in the Central Balkans (Haskel Greenfield); 16) Problems and Possibilities in Reconstructing Scandinavian Saddles of the Migration Period (Ulrike Mayer-Kuester); 17) Mythological Treatment of the Horse in Indo-European Culture (Elena Kuzmina); 18) The Stature of Horses in Armenian Bronze and Early Iron Age Burials (Ninna Manaseryan); 19) Horse Husbandry Among Early Iron Age Trans-Ural Societies (Ludmila Koryakova and Bryan K. Hanks); 20) The Khans Mule: Attitudes toward a Forgotten Animal (Laszlo Bartosiewicz); 21) Imaging the Horse in Early China: From the Table to the Stable (Katheryn Linduff); 22) Iron Age Harness Fittings Along the Silk Route (Trudy S. Kawami); 23) Windhorses and Dharma Warriors: The Religious, Historical, and Cultural Relevance of Horse Protection Rituals in Mustang, Nepal (Sienna R. Craig); 24) Tibetan Horse Books from the High Himalayas (Petra Maurer and Angela von den Driesch); 25) The Horse as Technology the City Animal as Cyborg (Clay McShane and Joel Tarr).Olsen, Sandra L. is the author of 'Horses and Humans: the Evolution of Human/Equine Relationships (bar s)', published 2006 under ISBN 9781841719900 and ISBN 1841719900.