{"id":1911,"date":"2021-10-01T15:01:51","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T08:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archaeology.nsc.ru\/sale\/?post_type=product&#038;p=1911"},"modified":"2021-10-01T15:47:38","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T08:47:38","slug":"aeae0493en05","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/archaeology.nsc.ru\/sale\/en\/product\/aeae0493en05\/","title":{"rendered":"A Monumental Horse Burial in the Armenian Highlands (PDF file)"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File .pdf <a class=\"button product_type_simple add_to_cart_button ajax_add_to_cart\" href=\"?add-to-cart=1911\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-quantity=\"1\" data-product_id=\"1911\" data-product_sku=\"\" aria-label=\"\">Add to basket<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Journal Article &#8220;Archaeology, Ethnology &#038; Anthropology of Eurasia&#8221;49 (3) 2021<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">doi:10.17746\/1563-0110.2021.49.3.041-050<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>A. Nachmias<sup>1<\/sup>, G. Bar-Oz<sup>1<\/sup>, D. Nadel<sup>1<\/sup>, L. Petrosyan<sup>2<\/sup>, and B. Gasparyan<sup>2<\/sup><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<sup>1<\/sup>Zinman Institute of Archaeology, University of Haifa, 199 Aba-Hushi Avenue, Haifa, 3498838, Israel<br \/>\n<sup>2<\/sup>Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, Charentsa 15, Yerevan, 0025, Republic of Armenia\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Here we report on the unprecedented discovery of the complete skeleton of a ritually interred adult stallion with a bronze ring in its mouth. The horse was buried in a unique 15-meters diameter monumental stone-built tomb excavated in the Aghavnatun necropolis located on the southern slopes of Mt. Aragats, in the northern fringes of the Ararat Depression, Republic of Armenia. The tumulus was roughly circular; the horse\u2019s remains were found in situ, in an inner oval-shaped structure. Our methodological procedure included a detailed description of the burial, a taphonomic study of the bones, and meticulous morphometric observations and measurements, and thus we could provide a taxonomic definition and an age estimate. Direct radiometric dating of the horse\u2019s skeleton provided a date of 2130\u00b120 BP. The morphological characteristics of the horse, with its tall stature and slender feet, suggest that it was a large individual, similar to the extinct breed of Nisean horse previously known mainly from textual and iconographical sources. The metal ring found in the mouth of the horse suggests that it likely served as a breeding stallion. This discovery presents a unique combination of zooarchaeological evidence for the importance of the horse in the Parthian-Hellenistic worlds, and advances our understanding of the broad social significance of the past breeding of equids in the Armenian Highlands.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Keywords: <em>Armenia, horse burial, Classical archaeology, Nisean horse, Ararat Depression<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1865,"template":"","meta":[],"lang":"en","translations":{"en":1911},"pll_sync_post":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archaeology.nsc.ru\/sale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/1911"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archaeology.nsc.ru\/sale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archaeology.nsc.ru\/sale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archaeology.nsc.ru\/sale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archaeology.nsc.ru\/sale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}