Ch. 1. Focusing on Central Eurasian Archaeology: East Meets West / Marsha Levine -- Ch. 2. Steppe and Forest-steppe Belt of Eurasia: Holocene Environmental History / Konstantin V. Kremenetski -- Ch. 3. Green Grows the Steppe: How can Grassland Ecology Increase our Understanding of Human-Plant Interactions and the Origins of Agriculture / Mim A. Bower -- Ch. 4. Organic Residue Analysis of Lipids in Potsherds from the Early Neolithic Settlement of Botai, Kazakhstan / Stephanie N. Dudd, Richard P. Evershed and Marsha Levine -- Ch. 5. Eneolithic Horse Rituals and Riding in the Steppes: New Evidence / David W. Anthony and Dorcus R. Brown -- Ch. 6. Horse Exploitation in the Kazakh Steppes during the Eneolithic and Bronze Age / Norbert Benecke and Angela von den Driesch -- Ch. 7. The Exploitation of Horses at Botai, Kazakhstan / Sandra L. Olsen -- Ch. 8. Geomorphological and Micromorphological Investigations of Palaeosols, Valley Sediments and a Sunken-floored Dwelling at Botai, Kazakhstan / Charly French and Maria Kousoulakou -- Ch. 9. A Note on the Early Evidence for Horse in Western Asia / Joan Oates -- Where the Donkeys at Tell Brak (Syria) Harnessed with a Bit? / Juliet Clutton-Brock -- Ch. 10. Equids in the Northern Part of the Iranian Central Plateau from the Neolithic to Iron Age: New Zoogeographic Evidence / Marjan Mashkour -- Ch. 11. A Walk on the Wild Side: Late Shang Appropriation of Horses in China / Kathryn M. Linduff -- Ch. 12. The Horse in Late Prehistoric China: Wresting Culture and Control from the 'Barbarians' / Victor H. Mair -- Ch. 13. Horseback Riding: Man's Access to Speed? / Ute Luise Dietz -- Ch. 14. Origins of Pastoralism in the Eurasian Steppes / Elena E. Kuzmina -- Ch. 15. The Horse and the Wheel: the Dialectics of Change in the Circum-Pontic Region and Adjacent Areas, 4500-1500 B.C. / Andrew Sherratt -- Ch. 16. The Importance of Fish in the Diet of Central Eurasian Peoples from the Mesolithic to the Early Iron Age / Tamsin O'Connell, Marsha Levine and Robert Hedges -- Ch. 17. Correlations between Agriculture and Pastoralism in the Northern Pontic Steppe Area during the Bronze Age / Kateryna P. Bunyatyan -- Ch. 18. Palaeoethnobotanical Evidence of Agriculture in the Steppe and the Forest-steppe of East Europe in the Late Neolithic and Bronze Age / Galina Pashkevich -- Ch. 19. First Cattle-breeders of the Azov-Pontic Steppes / Volodymyr N. Stanko -- Ch. 20. Farmers and Pastoralists of the Pontic Lowland during the Late Bronze Age / Yakov P. Gershkovich -- Ch. 21. The Economic Peculiarities of the Srubnaya Cultural-historical Entity / Vitaliy V. Otroshchenko -- Ch. 22. Srubnaya Fauna and Beyond: a Critical Assessment of the Archaezoological Information from the East European Steppe / Arturo Morales Muniz and Ekaterina Antipina -- Ch. 23. Yamnaya Culture Pastoral Exploitation: a Local Sequence / Natalia I. Shishlina -- Ch. 24. Problems of Inhabiting Central Eurasia: Mesolithic-Eneolithic Exploitation of the Central Eurasian Steppes / Gerald Matyushin -- Ch. 25. The Steppes of the Urals and Kazakhstan during the Late Bronze Age / Svetlana Zdanovich
Summary
"The domestication of the horse was one of the most significant events in the development of human societies, ushering in new modes transport and warfare and generating social and political change. This volume seeks to examine the origins of horse husbandry and pastoralism - especially nomadic pastoralism - in the Eurasian steppe. In bringing together archaeologists and archaeozoologists from Asia, Europe, and North America it provides a wide-ranging overview of issues and evidence for the development of Central European societies from the Neolithic to the Iron Age. Much of the material is here made available in English for the first time. The issues surrounding the domestication of the horse are set firmly within the broader context of steppe ecology and human subsistence, and with the development of pastoral economies across this crucial geographical zone."--BOOK JACKET