This week, we've got one more past Patreon episode for you! Thank you all for your patience as we get back into the swing of things. We'll be back with your regularly scheduled new episodes in May. But for now, we're all horses, all the time. Amber gives you an unbridled (har!) look at the Hittite Horse Training Texts, which are much more than just Kikkuli (remember him?). After that, we veer from horsemanship to horse-man-’ship. First there’s a glimpse into the legal mind of the Hittites, and then some interesting commonalities across Indo-European societies and an overview of equine lives in antiquity. Ohhh neigh.
Links
These Asian hunter-gatherers may have been the first people to domesticate horses (Science)
Catalogue of Hittite Language (Konkordanz der heithitischen Keilschrifttafeln)
Hittite Laws (Law Collections from Mesopotamia and Asia Minor)
Hittites, Horses, and Corpses (The Early Nature of the Bible)
The Rise of Bronze Age Society: Travels, Transmissions and Transformations
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