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  • Elite chariots and early horse transport at the Bronze Age burial site of Shijia

  • Chengrui Zhang, Yongan Wang, Junmin Zhang, William Timothy Treal Taylor, Feng Sun, Zexian Huang, Ruijing Qiu, Furen Hou, Rowan K. Flad, Yue Li
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    Antiquity / Volume 97 / Issue 393 / June 2023
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    24 April 2023, pp. 636-653
    Print publication:
    June 2023
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  • Horses and chariots played a crucial social, cultural and military role in the emergence and development of early states in China. Little research, however, has explored the life histories of individual chariot horses or assessed their role as working animals. Here, the authors present a detailed zooarchaeological and palaeopathological study of eight adult male horses, used for pulling chariots, recovered from a single chariot-horse pit at the burial site of Shijia in north-western China. The characterisation of key osteological differences between chariot horses and ridden horses is offered as a contribution to the toolkit available for the archaeological investigation of human-horse interactions around the globe.