Salvete Omnes,
a short entry today, it is summer time - but lots of viewing pleasure, I daresay.
So here are two very interesting, exciting and unusual videos completely breaking and doing away with the narrative of the Bronze Age chariot being a Middle Eastern invention and practice. The presentations are about the Sintashta (Petrovka) culture of the present southern Russia and northern Kazakhstan, their chariots and the chariot reconstructions via experimental archaeology.
In the chronological order:
The Sintashta culture - earliest chariots, fortified settlements and bronze metallurgy.
EXARC - The Bronze Age Chariot of the Sintashta-Petrovka Period
Therefore we are able to see perhaps the very first charioteers from XXI century BC (2100-1800BC) . These were the possible inventors of driving harness and the very vehicle itself, plus the second most epochal aspect - horse breeding, selections and training for war (both archaeologists from the Torun presentation (late May conference in Torun, Poland) have their pages on academia, where, along with another seasoned archaeologist dr Andrey Epimakhov's work.
Upon registering on Academia you can download and then can study detailed explanation of the harness reconstruction, training, equipment, and surviving artefacts etc via their articles and books .
Nota bene, in 1999 dr Anthony , after the1995 carbon dating of the Sintashta discoveries, published his paper - The Sintashta Genesis.
In light of last 40 years of research (eg the most important may be the English language work by prof. David Anthony's 'The Horse, the Wheel and the Language' already discussed here ) and many years of the experimental archaeology then the publications like Osprey Military Publishing:
'The Mycenaeans' (2005).
'Bronze Age War Chariot' (2006) and some others must be corrected as it contains false information and thus is a 'garbage.'
Arkaim/Arkhaim today
Valete
