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Bones, bridles and bits – but where’s the horse?

Ancient equine remains provide fascinating clues to migration and warfare – but the animals themselves seem largely absent in William T. Taylor’s history of the horse

21 September 2024

9:00 AM

21 September 2024

9:00 AM

Hoof Beats: How Horses Shaped Human History William T. Taylor

University of California, pp.360, 25

The German cultural scientist Ulrich Raulff has written that horses have as many meanings as bones. In the archaeologist William Taylor’s new history of horses and humans, we meet all those bones. Found in thawing permafrost, in caves, and buried ceremonially in graves in Siberia and Chile, the bones are cracked open by Taylor to show how the horse evolved in the Americas before its early encounters with human hunters.

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