Seeking horses: allies, clients and exchanges in the Zhou Period (1045–221 BC)

J Rawson, L Huan, WTT Taylor - Journal of World Prehistory, 2021 - Springer
Horses and chariots—and the associated technology and expertise—derived from the
steppe contributed to the success of the Zhou conquest of the Shang in c. 1045 BC and …

Art, ambiguity and transformation

C Gosden - Art in the Eurasian Iron Age: context, connections and …, 2020 - torrossa.com
Iron Age cultures were large, connected, volatile, varied and contested. After 150 years or
more of concerted study we are only just getting a sense of what life in the 1st millennium BC …

United We Play, United We Pray? Connected Networks of Medieval Play and Supernatural Engagement

MA Hall - A United Europe of Things: Portable Material Culture …, 2024 - Springer
This contribution explores issues around the commonality versus distinctiveness of portable
material culture across medieval Europe, focusing in particular on material culture …

Introduction: context, connections and scale

C Gosden, H Chittock, P Hommel, C Nimura - 2019 - ora.ox.ac.uk
Around 500 BC a new mode of visual expression emerged in Europe. To the north of the
Alps, craftspeople began to decorate objects in ways that were strikingly different from the …

Refugees, networks, politics and east–west connections in Early Celtic art: Paul Jacobsthal's 'History of a Monster'in context

S Crawford, K Ulmschneider - Art in the Eurasian Iron Age: Context …, 2020 - torrossa.com
Abstract In 1938, German Jewish refugee scholar Paul Jacobsthal, recently appointed
Reader in Celtic Archaeology at the University of Oxford, gave a paper to the Oxford …