I FROM HORSE DOMESTICATION TO IMAGES
OF THE HORSE AND HORSEMEN ................................. 13
Alicja Lasota-Moskalewska, Karol Szymczak and
Mukhiddnin Khudzhanazarov.
A Problem of the Earliest Horse Domestication. Data
from the Neolithic Camp Ayakagytma 'The Site',
Uzbekistan, Central Asia ............................... 14
Algirdas Girininkas, Linas Daugnora and and Indrė
Antanaitis-Jacobs.
When did Domesticated Horses Appear in Lithuania? ...... 22
Jurgita Žukauskaitė.
Images of the Horse and Horseman in Corded Ware
Culture Studies ........................................ 32
Liina Maldre and Heidi Luik.
The Horse in Estonia in the Late Bronze Age:
Archaeozoological and Archaeological Data .............. 37
II RIDING TO HEAVEN: HORSES FROM BURIALS ..................... 49
Andrei V. Zinoviev.
Horses from Two Burials in Samland and Natangen
(Second Century AD Kaliningradskaia Province,
Russia) ................................................ 50
Malgorzata Karczewska, Maciej Karczewski, and Anna
Gręzak.
The Role of Horse Burials in the Bogaczewo Culture.
The Key Studies of Paprotki Kolonia Site 1 Cemetery,
Northeast Poland ....................................... 56
III HORSES, HORSEMEN, AND EQUESTRIAN EQUIPMENT: PREPARED
FOR WAR, BURIALS, AND OFFERINGS ........................... 91
Bartosz Kontny.
Horse and its Use in the Przeworsk Culture in
the Light of the Archaeological Evidence ............... 92
Wojciech Nowakowski.
Horse Burials in Roman Period Cemeteries of
the Bogaczewo Culture ................................. 115
Konstantin Skvortsov.
Burials of Riders and Horses Dated to the Roman Iron
Age and Great Migration Period in Aleika-3 (Former
Jaugehnen), Cemetery on the Sambian Peninsula ......... 130
Audrone Bliujienė and Donatas Butkus.
Burials with Horses and Equestrian Equipment on
the Lithuanian and Latvian Littorals and Hinterlands
(from the Fifth to the Eighth Centuries) .............. 149
Bartosz Kontny, Jerzy Okulicz-Kozaryn and Miroslaw
Pietrzak.
Horse Graves in the Elbląg Group. The Case of the
Cemetery at the Nowinka, Tolkmicko Commune ............ 164
Audronė Bliujienė and Valdas Steponaitis.
Wealthy Horsemen in the Remote and Tenebrous Forests
of East Lithuania during the Migration Period ......... 185
Christine Reich.
The Cemetery of Oberhof (Aukštkiemiai) - Horse
Graves and Equestrian Equipment ....................... 206
IV THE HORSE IN WARFARE ..................................... 219
Susanne Wilbers-Rost and Achim Rost.
Bones and Equipment of Horses and Mules on
the Ancient Battlefield of Kalkriese, Northern
Germany ............................................... 220
Michel Kazanski.
La Cavalerie Slave A l'Époque de Justinien .............. 229
V THE WORLD OF HORSE SYMBOLISM ............................. 241
Laurynas Kurila.
Symbolic Horse Burials in the Iron Age of East
Lithuania ............................................. 242
Antonija Vilcãne.
Findings of Harness Items and the Cult of the Horse
in Latgallian and Selonian Territories ................ 254
Guntis Zemītis.
The "Divine Trial" in 12th Century Turaida in
Historical Context .................................... 270
VI HORSE AND EQUESTRIAN EQUIPMENT OFFERINGS ................. 277
Nina Lau.
The Harnesses from the Thorsberg Bog: New Evidence
Regarding Cavalry Equipment of the Roman Iron Age ..... 278
Rũdolfs Brũzis and Roberts Spirgis.
The Ogresgala Čabas Cemetery and Horse Sacrifice ...... 283
Mariusz Wyczółkowski and Daniel Makowiecki.
Horse Sacrifices in Prussia in the Early Middle
Ages. Ritual Area in Poganowo Site IV, Olsztyn
Province (Poland) ..................................... 295
Mindaugas Bertašius.
Horse Graves, Sacrifice, and the Performers of
Public Rituals ........................................ 305
Christer Westerdahl.
The Horse as a Liminal Agent .......................... 314
VII IMAGES OF THE HORSE IN ANCIENT ART ....................... 329
Dieter Quast.
The Merovingian Period Equestrians in Figural Art ..... 330
Konstantin Skvortsov and Aleksander Khokhlov.
Findings of Saddles from Archaeological Excavations
in Prussian Cemetery Aleika-3 in Samland.
(Preliminary Publication) ............................. 343
VIII Horses in Ethnoarchaeology and Folklore .................. 349
Sonja Hukantaival.
Horse Skulls and "Alder-Horse": the Horse as
a Depositional Sacrifice in Buildings ................. 350
Giedre Šukytė.
The Behaviour of Horses in Lithuanian Narrative
Folklore .............................................. 357
Rimantas Sliužinskas.
The Image of the Horse in Poetic Texts of Lithuanian
Folk Songs ............................................ 364
Guidelines for Authors ........................................ 374
Plates (I-VIII)
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