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DOI	10.17746/1563-0110.2021.49.3.041-050
	A Monumental Horse Burial in the Armenian Highlands
	Nachmias, A.; Bar-Oz, G.; Nadel, D.; Petrosyan, L.; Gasparyan, B.
通讯作者	Nachmias, A (corresponding author), Univ Haifa, Zinman Inst Archaeol, 199 Aba Hushi Ave, IL-3498838 Haifa, Israel.
来源期刊	ARCHAEOLOGY ETHNOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY OF EURASIA
ISSN	1563-0110
EISSN	1531-832X
出版年	2021
卷号	49 期号:3 页码:41-50
英文摘要	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's 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's skeleton provided a date of 2130 +/- 20 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.
英文关键词	Armenia horse burial Classical archaeology Nisean horse Ararat Depression
类型	Article
语种	英语
收录类别	ESCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000713007000005
WOS关键词	DESERT KITES ; GAME TRAPS
WOS类目	Anthropology
WOS研究方向	Anthropology
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/374243
作者单位	[Nachmias, A.; Bar-Oz, G.; Nadel, D.] Univ Haifa, Zinman Inst Archaeol, 199 Aba Hushi Ave, IL-3498838 Haifa, Israel; [Petrosyan, L.; Gasparyan, B.] Natl Acad Sci Republ Armenia, Inst Archaeol & Ethnog, Charentsa 15, Yerevan 0025, Armenia
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Nachmias, A.,Bar-Oz, G.,Nadel, D.,et al. A Monumental Horse Burial in the Armenian Highlands[J],2021,49(3):41-50.
APA	Nachmias, A.,Bar-Oz, G.,Nadel, D.,Petrosyan, L.,&Gasparyan, B..(2021).A Monumental Horse Burial in the Armenian Highlands.ARCHAEOLOGY ETHNOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY OF EURASIA,49(3),41-50.
MLA	Nachmias, A.,et al."A Monumental Horse Burial in the Armenian Highlands".ARCHAEOLOGY ETHNOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY OF EURASIA 49.3(2021):41-50.