From sheep to (some) horses: 4500 years of herd structure at the pastoralist settlement of Begash (south-eastern Kazakhstan)

Antiquity

Volumn 83, Issue 322, 2009, Pages 1023-1037

  Frachetti, Michael ^a   Benecke, Norbert ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GERMAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bronze Age; Eurasian steppe; Herd structure; Historic period; Horses; Kazakhstan; Pastoralism; Prehistoric period

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952946387     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: 0003598X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00099324     Document Type: Article

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