Session: #469

Theme & Session Format

Theme:
5. Theories and methods in archaeology: interactions between disciplines
Session format:
Regular session

Title & Content

Title:
CANCELLED Horseman-Horse Couple through Time and Space
Content:
Riding greatly impacted past societies by increasing mobility and revolutionizing warfare. Horses were also frequently use for sports and hunting. These various uses implied close interactions between riders and their mounts, considered as precious companions. This couple is also strongly linked to wealth and power, therefore social representations. This relationship contributed to raise a figure of the horseman, between myth and reality, often in a positive/negative duality.
A variety of sources provide precious evidences on this special couple across time and space, as human and equids bones or harness material, their archaeological context, written sources and pictorial depictions, nowadays ethnographical observations and ethological sciences. Their analysis can provide information on equestrian practices, physical interactions and performances of the rider with his mount and methods of training and grooming of these animals. It can also give us an idea of cultural perceptions of horsemen on their horses, of the society on the horsemen.
This session aims to highlight the multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches exploring horseman-horse relationship. We hope illustrate the need of crossing knowledge from different disciplines for a better understanding of this strong link. We expect papers focused on – or even crossing – different realms as archaeological context analysis, osteological studies, iconography, social and cultural anthropology, etc. which can document this topic. Works interested in European as well as non-European contexts and on diverse periods are welcomed.
Keywords:
horseman-equids interactions, mounted warrior paradigm, bioarchaeology, social status, imagery, representations
Session associated with MERC:
no
Session associated with CIfA:
no
Session associated with SAfA:
no
Session associated with CAA:
no
Session associated with DGUF:
no
Session associated with other:

Organisers

Main organiser:
Marion BINDE (France) 1
Co-organisers:
Ilona BEDE (France) 2
Gergely CSIKY (Hungary) 3
Affiliations:
1. UMR 5199 PACEA, Université de Bordeaux
2. UMR 8167 Orient et Méditerranée - Monde byzantin, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
3. Insitute of Archaeology, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest