【预订】Horse in the Ancient World, The 9781784533663
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2016-06-30
Product Details 基本信息 ISBN-13 书号 9781784533663 Author 作者 Carolyn Willekes Format 版本 精装 Pages Number 页数 304页 Publisher 出版社 I.B. Tauris Publication Date 出版日期 2016-06-30 Product Dimensions 商品尺寸 216 x 138 Language 语种 其它(含多语) Book Contents 内容简介 The domestication of the horse in the fourth millennium BC altered the course of mankind’s future. Formerly a source only of meat, horses now became the prime mode of fast transport as well as a versatile weapon of war. Carolyn Willekes traces the early history of the horse through a combination of equine iconography, literary representations, fieldwork and archaeological theory. She explores the ways in which horses were used in the ancient world, whether in regular cavalry formations, harnessed to chariots, as a means of reconnaissance, in swift and deadly skirmishing (such as by Scythian archers) or as the key mo
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