An Early History of Horsemanship |
Contents
Prologue | 1 |
The Dawn of the Horse Civilization | 5 |
The Near East | 23 |
Traditions derived from the Middle East | 48 |
Inner Asia and Eastern Europe in the Iron Age | 66 |
Eastern Asia | 95 |
Central and Western Europe | 111 |
PreRoman Italy | 129 |
The Influence of Rome | 151 |
The End of the Ancient Age | 157 |
Ancient Breeds | 163 |
References | 182 |
189 | |
191 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Age cultures Altai ancient Andronovo cultures animals archaeological archaeologists armoured army asses Azzaroli battle belong Boessneck Bökönyi bones bred bronze bits carts catafract Celts cemetery central Asia central Europe century B. C. chariot cheekpieces Chinese coat Copper Age Daunians depicted Dereivka developed domestic horses dynasty early Bronze Age Egypt Egyptian empire equestrian art Etruscan evidence excavations fighting figures Garamantes Ghirshman Greek Hallstatt culture harness heavy Herodotus Hittite horse bits horse breeds horse burials horse remains horsemanship horsemen hunting Indo-European Iron Age Italy Kadesh king kingdom Kuzmina late Iron Age later Lefebvre des Noëttes limbs Littauer & Crouwel Mesopotamia metal Middle East Mitanni mounted mouthpiece Neolithic northern occidental oldest onagers Parthian Pazyryk perhaps period Persian racing reins relief riders riding nomads Roman Sarmatians Sasanian Scythians seems settlements shafts shoes skull slender southern steppes stirrup style terracotta tomb contained tribes vase Veneti Vigneron Villanovan warriors western wheels wild