The reading list for my first course, Horses and the Human Story: How Mongolian Horses Changed the World, is exciting. I am taking notes I work through it. I am hoping this will help me prepare me for a deeper dive into the assignments and tasks I will be asked to do while there. Here is a partial list. The remainder is in the final stages of publishing, so I am not quite sure that I am at liberty to share.
Natasha Fijn, Human-horse Sensory Engagement Through Horse
Archery, September 25, 2020, Australian Anthropological Journal, DOI: 10.1111/taja.12376.
William W. Fitzhugh, THE MONGOLIAN DEER STONE-KHIRIGSUUR COMPLEX:
DATING AND ORGANIZATION OF A LATE BRONZE AGE MENAGERIE, accessed June 10, https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/16344/anth_fitzhugh_german_symp_183-199.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y .
William Honeychurch and Chunag Amartuvshin. "States on Horseback:The Rise of Inner Asian Confederations and Empires" in Meriam T. Stark (ed), Archeology of Asia, (Malden: Blackwell Press, 2006).
Rawson, J., Huan, L. & Taylor, W.T.T. Seeking Horses: Allies, Clients and Exchanges in the Zhou Period (1045–221 BC). J World Prehist 34, 489–530 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10963-021-09161-9
Struck J, Bliedtner M, Strobel P, Taylor W, Biskop S, Plessen B, Klaes B, Bittner L, Jamsranjav B, Salazar G, Szidat S, Brenning A, Bazarradnaa E, Glaser B, Zech M, Zech R. Central Mongolian lake sediments reveal new insights on climate change and equestrian empires in the Eastern Steppes. Sci Rep. 2022 Feb 18;12(1):2829. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-06659-w. PMID: 35181711; PMCID: PMC8857271.
Wilkin S, Ventresca Miller A, Taylor WTT, Miller BK, Hagan RW, Bleasdale M, Scott A, Gankhuyg S, Ramsøe A, Uliziibayar S, Trachsel C, Nanni P, Grossmann J, Orlando L, Horton M, Stockhammer PW, Myagmar E, Boivin N, Warinner C, Hendy J. Dairy pastoralism sustained eastern Eurasian steppe populations for 5,000 years. Nat Ecol Evol. 2020 Mar;4(3):346-355. doi: 10.1038/s41559-020-1120-y. Epub 2020 Mar 2. PMID: 32127685; PMCID: PMC7212056.
Jamsranjav Bayarsaikhan, Tsagaan Turbat, Chinbold Bayandelger, Tumurbaatar Tuvshinjargal , Juan Wang, Igor Chechushkov, ,Manabu Uetsuki, Naoto Isahaya, Mark Hudson, Noriyuki Shiraishi, Yue Li, Chengrui Zhang, Gelegdorj Eregzen, Gino Caspari ,Paula López-Calle, Joshua L. Conver, Gaëtan Tressières, Lorelei Chauvey, Julie Birgel, Nasan-Ochir Erdene-Ochir, Jan Bemmann, Gregory Hodgins, Kristine K. Richter, Ludovic Orlando, Christina Warinner and William Timothy Treal Taylor. "The origins of saddles and riding technology in East Asia: discoveries from the Mongolian Altai," Antiquity 2024 Vol. 98 (397): 102–118, https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2023.172.
The schedule for the first course is equally interesting:
CALENDAR
NOTE: readings may be changed prior to class, as course materials are updated and circumstances of travel change.
Day | Location | Lecture topic | Site visits | Readings | Key deadlines |
1 (July 20th) | Ulaanbaatar | Welcome, overview | Chinggis Khaan Museum National Museum of Mongolia | ||
2 (July 21) | Travel to Kharkhorum | Mongolia’s horse culture: shaping the ancient world | Kharkhorum/Erdenezuu Monastery | Honeychurch and Amartuvshin 2006 | Presentation topic approval |
3 (July 22) | Kharkhorum | Horse transport and technology in early steppe empires | Orkhon Valley Cultural Landscape (UNESCO World Heritage) | Hoof Beats, Ch. 7-10 Bayarsaikhan et al. 2024 Fijn 2020 | |
4 (July 23rd) | Travel to Jargalantyn Am | The origins of empire: Mongolia, the Silk Road, and the Xiongnu | Hoof Beats, Ch. 7-10 Struck et al. 2020 | ||
5 (July 24th) | Jargalantyn Am | Horse domestication and Mongolia’s first horse cultures | Jargalantyn Am/Urt Bulagyn deer stones and khirigsuur | Hoof Beats, Ch: 1-6 Fitzhugh 2009 Rawson et al. 2020 | |
Final presentations | |||||
6 (July 25th) | Travel to Harganat | STUDENT SYMPOSIUM | Conversation: horse equipment and training | ||
7 (July 26th) | Harganat | Horses and horse culture in a mechanizing world | Horseback trip: Harganat postal relay station | Hoof Beats, Ch: 16-17 Minetti 2003 Taylor 2016 https://www.theguardian. com/science/blog/2016/ dec/07/archaeology- sheds-light-on-mongolias- uncertain-nomadic-future | |
8 (July 27th) | Travel to Bulgan | Horse herding and dairy pastoralism | Conversation: Horse dairy production | Wilkin et al. 2020 | Diaries/daily reflections due |
9 (July 28th) | Travel to Ulaanbaatar | --- | Goodbye dinner |
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