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Posted by palaeochick (U6073307) on Wednesday, 11th October 2006
Hi all!
For research purposes, I have a few questions about the bronze age (UK)!
I'll jump right in:
Did bronze age people ride horses? What sort of horses?(any evidence?)
What state/stage were Avebury and Stonehenge in/at when bronze was being used for tools? Approx what date did bronze start being used? (whats the evidence?)
I would also like to hear any and all theories about stonehenge and avebury, their construction, purpose and use etc. (alien/UFO theories not required, though.)
Thanks very much.
palaeochick
Try googlinh "Bronze Age".
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Posted by an ex-nordmann - it has ceased to exist (U3472955) on Wednesday, 11th October 2006
1. Did bronze age people ride horses?
2. What sort of horses?
3. (any evidence?)
Μύ
1. Some did.
2. Bronze age horses.
3. Not much, but we can be fairly sure that the animal had been tamed and was in use in central Asia. It features somewhat in contemporary Egyptian pictography also in a military context.
1. What state/stage were Avebury and Stonehenge in/at when bronze was being used for tools?
2. Approx what date did bronze start being used?
3. (whats the evidence?)
Μύ
1. Pretty good, I'd imagine, though beginning to show their age.
2. At the start of the bronze age.
3. Bronze artefacts.
I would also like to hear any and all theories about stonehenge and avebury, their construction, purpose and use etc.
Μύ
All of the less zany theories suggest a device by which the passage of the year, and essentially the seasonal shift between fertile and barren periods, was measured. For infinitely more detail on these - and other suggestions - read a book or two. There are zillions of them relating to this subject.
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Posted by ElistanOnVacation (U3933150) on Wednesday, 11th October 2006
Nordmann,
Showing my ignorance here. I was under the impression that horses were used for pulling chariots in the Bronze Age, not ridden.
, in reply to message 5.
Posted by an ex-nordmann - it has ceased to exist (U3472955) on Thursday, 12th October 2006
That's my understanding also and did not infer otherwise I hope, though in north-central Asia and parts related we can with some degree of certainty assume that contemporaries of the charioteers were up on the animals' backs as well, and in the cases of Assyria and the early Persian empires be absolutely sure of it.
Ponies were prevelant in the British Isles & were used as draft & pack animals. Don't know for sure if they were ridden, but I sincerely doubt it (except by children, of course!)
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