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ANTIQUITY
Volume 83, Issue 322, Pages 1023-1037Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00099324
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Kazakhstan; Eurasian steppe; Bronze Age; prehistoric period; historic period; pastoralism; horses; herd structure
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Does the riding of horses necessarily go with the emergence of Eurasian pastoralism? Drawing on their fine sequence of animal bones from Begash, the authors think not. While pastoral herding of sheep and goats is evident from the Early Bronze Age, the horse appears only in small numbers before the end of the first millennium BC Its adoption coincides with an increase in hunting and the advent of larger politically organised groups.
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