Book contents
- Subsistence and Society in Prehistory
- Subsistence and Society in Prehistory
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Table
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 Is Determinism Dead?
- Chapter 3 Incorporating New Methods I: The Stable Isotope Revolution
- Chapter 4 Incorporating New Methods II: Residue Chemistry
- Chapter 5 Incorporating New Methods III: Answering Palaeoeconomic Questions with Molecular Genetics
- Chapter 6 Incorporating New Methods IV: Phytoliths and Starch Grains in the Tropics and Beyond
- Chapter 7 Integrated Case Study I: Early Farming in Central Europe
- Chapter 8 Integrated Case Study II: Horse Domestication and the Origins of Pastoralism in Central Asia
- Chapter 9 Conclusion
- References
- Index
Chapter 8 - Integrated Case Study II: Horse Domestication and the Origins of Pastoralism in Central Asia
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 October 2019
- Subsistence and Society in Prehistory
- Subsistence and Society in Prehistory
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Table
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 Is Determinism Dead?
- Chapter 3 Incorporating New Methods I: The Stable Isotope Revolution
- Chapter 4 Incorporating New Methods II: Residue Chemistry
- Chapter 5 Incorporating New Methods III: Answering Palaeoeconomic Questions with Molecular Genetics
- Chapter 6 Incorporating New Methods IV: Phytoliths and Starch Grains in the Tropics and Beyond
- Chapter 7 Integrated Case Study I: Early Farming in Central Europe
- Chapter 8 Integrated Case Study II: Horse Domestication and the Origins of Pastoralism in Central Asia
- Chapter 9 Conclusion
- References
- Index
Summary
Chapter 8 presents another integrated case study addressing the origins of domestic horses and pastoralism in Central Asia, focussing on modern day Kazakhstan during the Eneolithic and Bronze Age. As well as discussing issues of animal domestication it also considers questions of mobility and aspects of social zooarchaeology amongst pastoralists.
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- Subsistence and Society in PrehistoryNew Directions in Economic Archaeology, pp. 163 - 194Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019