All the Pretty Horses - Ep 134

This week, we've got one more past Patreon episode for you! Thank you all for your patience as we get back into the swing of things. We'll be back with your regularly scheduled new episodes in May. But for now, we're all horses, all the time. Amber gives you an unbridled (har!) look at the Hittite Horse Training Texts, which are much more than just Kikkuli (remember him?). After that, we veer from horsemanship to horse-man-’ship. First there’s a glimpse into the legal mind of the Hittites, and then some interesting commonalities across Indo-European societies and an overview of equine lives in antiquity. Ohhh neigh.

Links

• Kikkuli (International Museum of the Horse)

• Mitanni (Livius)

• These Asian hunter-gatherers may have been the first people to domesticate horses (Science)

• The Kikkuli Text. Hittite Training Instructions for Chariot Horses in the Second Half of the 2nd Millennium B.C. and Their Interdisciplinary Context

• Catalogue of Hittite Language (Konkordanz der heithitischen Keilschrifttafeln)

• Hittite Laws (Law Collections from Mesopotamia and Asia Minor)

• Hittites, Horses, and Corpses (The Early Nature of the Bible)

• The Rise of Bronze Age Society: Travels, Transmissions and Transformations

• Ancient origins of horsemanship (Equine Veterinary Journal)

• Horse Gear from Hasanlu (Expedition)

Contact

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BMAC: The Best Bronze Age Complex You've Never Heard Of - Ep 118

This week, Anna and Amber head to ancient Central Asia for a sponsored episode in which they explore the Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex. Come along and learn why there’s BMAC stuff all over the place! Visit Gonur and the man that wants to be buried in its deserts! Consider the who and the why of the BMAC and its collapse (psst it wasn’t a collapse)! Meet some Horse Guys!

Links

• Bactria (Encyclopedia Iranica)

• Margiana (Livius)

• Archaeology Wordsmith

• Central and North Asia, 2000–1000 B.C. (Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History)

• Art of the Bronze Age: Southeastern Iran, Western Central Asia, and the Indus Valley (via Google Books)

• Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex objects in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Collection

• On the Origin of Metallurgical Technologies in the Bronze Age (Powder Metallurgy and Metal Ceramics)

• The Middle Asian Interaction Sphere (Expedition)

• Central Asia's Lost Civilization (Discover)

• The Roots of Hinduism: The Early Aryans and The Indus Civilization (Oxford University Press)

• Early evidence for horse utilization in the Eurasian steppes and the case of the Novoil’inovskiy 2 Cemetery in Kazakhstan (Journal of Archaeological Science)

• What Language Was Spoken by the People of the Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex? (“At the Shores of the Sky": Asian Studies for Albert Hoffstädt)

• The Formation of Human Populations in South and Central Asia (Science)

• Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of the Oxus Civilization in Southern Central Asia (Socio-Environmental Dynamics along the Historical Silk Road)

Contact

• Email the Dirt Podcast: thedirtpodcast@gmail.com

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• Wildnote

• TeePublic

• Timeular