Reconstructing the functional traits of the horses from the tomb of King Childeric

Hanot, Pauline; Gerber, Sylvain; Guintard, Claude; Herrel, Anthony; Verslype, Laurent; Cornette, Raphaël

doi:10.1016/j.jas.2020.105200

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“…Due to this combination of factors, and in spite of the well-known connection between the Later Middle Ages and use of horses in warfare, the medieval warhorse has seen minimal zooarchaeological study, though some work on continental site-specific assemblages has examined this (Hanot et al, 2020;Pluskowski et al, 2009Pluskowski et al, , 2018. This study addresses this gap by compiling and analysing 2000 individual horse bones dating between the 4th and 17th centuries AD from archaeological sites across England.…”

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In search of the ‘great horse’: A zooarchaeological assessment of horses from England (AD 300–1650)

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Benkert

Fraser

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Intl J of Osteoarchaeology

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In search of the ‘great horse’: A zooarchaeological assessment of horses from England (AD 300–1650)

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Benkert

Fraser

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Intl J of Osteoarchaeology

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“…The military success of the Franks relied heavily on cavalry, for whom the horse was spiritually and economically important. Childeric (ad 457-81), the founder of the Merovingian dynasty, was buried with 21 horses, deposited in pits around his grave in Tournai, present-day Belgium (Hanot et al 2020), a firmly pagan gesture for a people who had commenced their conversion to Christianity, but who obviously wanted to retain their own traditions for as long as they could.…”

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Let’s be Frank

Maguire

2024

PSAS

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A unique bridle bit found at Lochlea crannog, South Ayrshire appears to show a fusion of traditional local Iron Age technology with Continental early medieval styling, specifically the influence of Frankish horsemanship (hereafter equitation) and equipment (hereafter lorinery and tack). The re-examination of the Lochlea bit allows consideration of Scotland’s connections to early medieval Francia as well as highlighting the archaeological potential of the artefacts found at Lochlea, with emphasis on a modern examination of the chronology of the site.

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“…This method allows us to classify a particular object in a group, taking into account its KNN by Euclidian distance after a leave-one-out cross validation. This method is less sensitive to small sample size than linear discriminant analysis (e.g., Hanot et al, 2020). In order to increase the efficiency of the discriminations, size was included in the KNN analysis.…”

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Towards a better knowledge of the molar morphology and ecology of extant and fossil grass rats (Muridae: Arvicanthis Lesson, 1842)

Stoetzel

Rodrigues²,

Cornette

2023

Quat. res.

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African rodents of the genus Arvicanthis are presently restricted to sub-Saharan savannas and to the Nile Valley. In contrast, their distribution during the Quaternary included most of northern Africa, leading to the emergence of local fossil species. To date, there have been no comprehensive studies of Arvicanthis populations in northern Africa, neither to clarify their taxonomy nor their paleoecology. The present study aims to explore both morphology and diet of modern and fossil Arvicanthis species using geometric morphometric and dental microwear analyses on first upper molars. The geometric morphometric analysis efficiently discriminates the studied extant and fossil Arvicanthis species and allowed for the identification of probable geographical variations within the A. niloticus group. Although all extant species of the genus Arvicanthis are predominantly grass-eaters, microwear analyses also highlighted diet differences in various modern populations of A. niloticus, as well as paleodiet inferences in the A. arambourgi fossil species, but no clear link between molar size or shape and diet can be established. This work helps set the stage for a complete revision of the fossil remains of Arvicanthis from northern African Quaternary deposits, and for a better understanding of the geographical and temporal morphological variability of this genus in Africa.

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Reconstructing the functional traits of the horses from the tomb of King Childeric

Cited by 4 publications

References 48 publications

In search of the ‘great horse’: A zooarchaeological assessment of horses from England (AD 300–1650)

In search of the ‘great horse’: A zooarchaeological assessment of horses from England (AD 300–1650)

Let’s be Frank

Towards a better knowledge of the molar morphology and ecology of extant and fossil grass rats (Muridae: Arvicanthis Lesson, 1842)

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