The search for the cradle of horse domestication goes on
Testing of ancient DNA largely rules out Asia Minor, according to researchers, who suggest the focus should be on the Black Sea region.
Read moreTesting of ancient DNA largely rules out Asia Minor, according to researchers, who suggest the focus should be on the Black Sea region.
Read morePainting of 1936 Derby winner Mahmoud among works from the collection of the Aga Khan to be sold in Paris.
Read moreHistorical marker to be unveiled following a long search to find Justin Morgan’s original home in Vermont.
Read more“The engraved stones are firmly domestic art – this may have been important as people moved back into northern Europe towards the end of the last Ice Age.”
Read moreThe importance of the so-called “Horse Butchery Site” in England, inhabited by humans nearly 500,000 years ago, is explained by archaeologist Matt Pope.
Read moreThe team worked with a reconstruction artist to bring the site and its social complexity to life.
Read moreArchaeologists traced the remaining outlines of leather straps attached to the metal harness components, providing insights into how the harness was employed.
Read more“The Farrier” is the “culmination of a 10-year project with one purpose: to share joy and pride for the craft of farriery”.
Read moreThough Early Modern British horsemen, like generations of their descendants, preferred hunting to schooling, “manège riding,” “had been practiced at the English court since the early sixteenth century”.
Read moreThe remains of two horses found in a burial mound in Kazakhstan reveal important insights into early horsemen.
Read morePaola Giacomini overcame a raft of challenges during her 15-month journey in the saddle.
Read moreNikita Gretsi plans to ride from Russia’s Pacific coast, across Sibera, to the Atlantic coast of Europe, then on to London.
Read more“Absolute dating of paintings that contain inorganic pigments has been achieved,” the study team concluded.
Read moreWhatever one’s discipline or its tutelary giants, rereading Xenophon of Athens, the celebrated horseman from classical antiquity, always repays the effort.
Read moreResearchers describe the Mongolia saddle as completely preserved.
Read moreA research article that highlights the link between the welfare of working equids and the wellbeing of their owners has received a significant endorsement through its acceptance by peer-reviewed scientific journal ‘Frontiers in Veterinary Science’.
Read more“The horse would have originally appeared gold-like and the recesses probably once contained bright red, blue or yellow enamel. It would have been a spectacular sight on someone’s robe.”
Read moreAncient mountain pass was a veritable horse highway.
Read more“The surgical operation is the most complex I have ever seen in my 40 years of working with anthropological materials.”
Read more“Archaeology is showing us more about how our ancestors survived in this desperately cold and hostile environment at the climax of the last ice age.”
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