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Chariots in Antiquity: Essays in Honour of Joost Crouwel
Peter Raulwing, Stefan Burmeister, Gail Brownrigg and Linduff Katheryn M.
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This volume of essays honours Joost Crouwel, a leading expert on wheeled transport in antiquity. The editors and contributors are internationally acclaimed specialists, who share their ideas, observations, and research by exploring the many facets associated with chariots: their equipment, horses and harnesses, cultural exchanges, iconography, and the outlook of the people who rode in them. The topics represent many areas of expertise: art historians, archaeologists, and linguists from Taiwan, Russia, Ukraine, Germany, Kazakhstan, Canada and the USA, a master wheelwright, a horse expert from the UK. Their specialist essays make an innovative and wide-ranging contribution to research across a wide spectrum of interests and areas of the ancient world. The contributions showcase diverse ways in which early chariots were utilised across Southeastern Europe, Eastern Europe/Central Asia, East Asia, Anatolia, the ancient Near East and Egypt. Notably, there is a time span of over 700 years separating the earliest occurrences of innovations in East Europe from those in East Asia. The book explores a wide range of technological solutions employed in the construction of these chariots as well as the history of chariotry. By presenting new insights into the chronological evolution, contextual occurrences, and manufacturing techniques of early chariots, this volume serves as a companion to Equids and Wheeled Vehicles in the Ancient World: Essays in Memory of Mary A. Littauer (BAR Publishing, 2019) edited by Peter Raulwing, Katheryn M. Linduff and Joost H. Crouwel.
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Front Cover
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Title Page
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Copyright Page
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Of Related Interest
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Dedication
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Contents
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Part I
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1. Introduction
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2. Joost H. Crouwel as a Teacher
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3. In Search of the Origins of the Chariot: Wrong Turns, Dead Ends, and Long and Winding Roads
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4. Research on Chariots in Slavic Studies: A Brief Overview
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Part II: Egypt, Near East, the Balkans, the Steppes, China in the 2nd millenium BCE and later developments
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5. Leather: An Integral Part of Chariots
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6. ‘They Shall Henceforth Be Fed in my Presence’: Observations on the Training and Treatment of Chariot Horses in Ancient Egypt
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7. The Egyptian ‘Check Rowel’ – A New Interpretation of its Purpose
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8. Another Storm God ‘Jumping’ on his Vehicle? Remarks on the Sketch on KUB 20.76
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9. Bone Cheekpieces and Spoked Wheels – Chariots in the Carpathian Region
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10. Archaeological Evidence for the Horse-Drawn Chariot from Inner Eurasia
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11. Early Cheekpieces in Eurasia
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12. Chariots on the Central Asian Rocks: The Dating Problem
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13. When Chariots Were First Known in China: Early Cheekpiece Development in the Late Shang Dynasty Around 1250 BCE
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14. Early Chinese Chariots, Carriages, and Carts in War and Peace: Evidence from New Textual and Archaeological Sources
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15. Majiayuan Chariots and the Lustre of Eurasia
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Part III: Chariot Findings, Chariots in Action, Their Construction, and Experimental Archaeology
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16. The Ancient V-spoked Chariot Wheel: Why was It Made that Way? Some Thoughts Based on Some Observations and the Experience of Making Chariot Reconstructions
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17. Jean Spruytte – Horseman, Scholar, Chariot Builder
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18. Some Observations on Chariotry and Chariot Warfare in the Near Eastern Late Bronze Age and the Battle of Kadesh
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Index
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Back Cover
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Published: 2023
Publisher: BAR Publishing
- 9781407361178 (paper)
- 9781407361185 (ebook)
BAR Number: S3159
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