From sheep to (some) horses: 4500 years of herd structure at the pastoralist settlement of Begash (south-eastern Kazakhstan)
From sheep to (some) horses: 4500 years of herd structure at the pastoralist settlement of Begash (south-eastern Kazakhstan)
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DOI:
10.1017/s0003598x00099324
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发表时间:
2009-12-01
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1.8
通讯作者:
Benecke, Norbert
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作者:
Frachetti, Michael;Benecke, Norbert
Does the riding of horses necessarily go with the emergence of Eurasian pastoralism? Drawing on their fine sequence of animal bones from Begash, the authors think not. While pastoral herding of sheep and goats is evident from the Early Bronze Age, the horse appears only in small numbers before the end of the first millennium BC Its adoption coincides with an increase in hunting and the advent of larger politically organised groups.