New Article on horse domestication - DOM2 horse population

 Salvete Omnes,

a short post to a great new article by dr David Anthony et al. - Horse genetics, archaeology, and the beginning of riding.

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from the article

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one of the earliest images of a domesticated (allegedly) horse - from Maykop Culture ware

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enjoy 

Valete

Dario recomends a novel of prehistory and then the Maykop culture horse

 Salvete Omnes,

so we have this brand new year, whatever... but life and Old Man Time are relentless in their going, so many thousand years ago Heraclitus of Ephesus cleverly stated - panta rhei... and some other sentences worth pondering. 
My new drawing tablet has not arrived before the end of the last year, so I am looking forward to get it this year, fingers crossed.
Ad rem, the recommendation -

yesterday I finished reading a 'historical fantasy' novel by a British writer Dan Davis and it was a very enjoyable 'ride' into the Eurasian steppe some 5000 years ago, especially since his fictional story is so  deeply immersed into the Yamnaya and other prehistoric cultures of our Eastern  Europe, but also is based on the ancient Greek and other Indo-European mythology, including mu most favorite Greek mythology hero - Heracles.
The story titled Godborn is already the second novel in his Gods of Bronze series, and I am looking forward to read the next installment sometime this year (so many books and articles to read, especially on academia,edu and archive.org and other research and internet libraries).

And the same author Dan Davies has a channel on YT, and there you can find many interesting presentations , and one of them is this presentation on the Maykop culture in the Kuban steppe (3,700-3000 BC) and North Caucasus reaching south to the Kura River (and Kura-Araxes culture) and Transcaucasia; so the Maykop  existed along the Yamnaya culture in the north, including also a  separate cultural 'fusion' known in Russian archaeology as Novotitorovskaya culture (very interesting wagons that have been discovered all over the area and more about them in the future). Meantime in the south, in today's Iraq there was Uruk and the flowering of the Summerian culture   (rather known via school education and multiple museum collections).

Enjoy Dan's presentation and his novels (but be forewarned that his book covers for the Gods of Bronze are pure fantasy) - note that is basically based on David Anthony's book The Horse, the Wheel et al. - which is great and it shows that our author is doing his research and is versed in the subject quite deeply. Congrats! (obviously also Mallory  and others).
Nota bene from the Maykop kurgan (of the Mykop culture) comes probably the oldest image of the horse of the post-glacial period in human history.

from one of the most influential Soviet and Russian archaeologists  Svetlana Alexandrovna Pletnieva's book on the cultural treasures from the Hermitage museum comes this photo of the metal(silver) vessel with a horse- above, and a drawing showing the horse with other animals (you could watch Dan's video presentation for details or read dr Anthony's chapter on the Maykop chief/king burial) from the vessel itself.

and one of the bulls from the burial. 

Valete

some articles from academia.edu - from Maykop to Caracalla

Salve,
today just quick one - several links to some great articles available libre to us all:

Majkop in larger Eurasian and African context, circa 3500 BC

The Bronze Age, indigenous, Majkop/Maikop/Maykop culture [video presentation by prof. Hansen, anther video by dr Yuri Y. Rassamakin ] of the Northern Caucasus - Belinskij, Hansen Reinhold team wrote  this article  that gives us a succinct description of the most significant finds from the Great Kurgan of Nalcik (11meters high and 100 meters long), including the bronze and silver daggers. (interesting DNA studies of the ancient Proto- and Indoeuropean cultures). Good book on the ancient Eurasia in Proto-Indoeuropean (PRI) context is this one. Older research from the Soviet Union grouping the Majkop with the Koban, Urartu, Saka/Scythians (including the Syberian horizons), Sarmatian cultures etc- via MET. Excavated objects from the II millennium BC.

In French -  profusely illustrated article on the Armenian kingdom of Tigran/Tigranes the Great authored by prof. Giusto Traina.
For Polish readers -  wydawnictwo  Infort Editions właśnie wydało  - Kampanie Lucjusza Licyniusza Lukullusa na Wschodzie 74-66 p.n.e - author Łukasz Bazentkiewicz - via Wanax.

Prof. Ilkka Syvanne announced his forthcoming book on Caracalla(Marcus Aurelius Antoninus ), one of the emperors of the Severan Dynasty.
 The book is going to be profusely illustrated with diagrams and concept illustrations based on research.
Example -

with explanation - shows the depth of research and analysis of all material and various fields of study.
Entire book to take  thanks to the Ukrainian scholar dr Oleksander Symonenko - it is a large volume on the North Pontic Samaritan warriors and their military [in Russian and profusely illustrated - check out those iron cuirasses and helmets, also plenty about horse tack and saddles].

enjoy