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The crucial role that horses have played in human
history up until the
present day has fuelled a passionate interest in understanding the
origins
of their earliest domestication. However, this question has proved
itself to
be highly intractable and has often distracted researchers from
following
up interesting lines of enquiry such as the evolution of Bronze
and Iron
Age horse husbandry. The geographical focus of this talk will be
the central
Eurasian steppe-lands and China. Chronologically it will extend
from the
Eneolithic to the Early Iron Age (c.4th - 1st millennia BC). Marsha
Levine
will explore the origins of horse domestication, the development
of Bronze
Age chariotry and the appearance of Scytho-Siberian equestrian pastoralism.
Dr Marsha Levine is a Senior Research Associate at the McDonald
Institute
for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge. She studied
at
Barnard College, Columbia University and received her doctorate
from
Cambridge. Her current research interests cover the human occupation
of central Eurasia and China from the Neolithic to Medieval times
with
special reference to palaeopathology and the origins and evolution
of
horse husbandry.
Members’ Priority Booking Period to
10 January then open to the
public. Asia House Members and concs £4, Non-members £7
Tickets available from Asia House, 63 New Cavendish Street,
London Tel: 020 7307 5454 mailto:enquiries@asiahouse.co.uk
Picture credit: Zheng kingdom chariot pit with horses buried beneath
the chariots, Warring States Period (481-221 BC), Xinzheng, Henan)
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