Klontza-Jaklova V. William T. Taylor. 2024. Hoof beats: how horses shaped human history. Oakland: University of California Press; 978-0-520-38067-7 hardback £25.
| Title in English | Klontza-Jaklova V. William T. Taylor. 2024. Hoof beats: how horses shaped human history. Oakland: University of California Press; 978-0-520-38067-7 hardback L25. |
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| Year of publication | 2025 |
| Type | Review |
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| Description | ‘Horse and human’ represent a fascinating interspecies relationship between predator and its prey. This unique relationship shaped our history, with the horse being one of the most significant suppliers of natural energy (along with solar energy and human labour) and the fastest means of transport on land until the discovery of electricity and the steam engine, and the author William Taylor is well aware of this. He provides us with data documenting this journey from the beginning of the evolution of the Equus species to the nineteenth century, while successfully leaving the horses “themselves to tell the human-story”, and argues that this is only possible through archaeology. |
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