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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.

KLONTZA, Věra

Basic information

Original name

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.

Name in Czech

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.

Authors

Edition

2025

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Review

Field of Study

60102 Archaeology

Country of publisher

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Confidentiality degree

is not subject to a state or trade secret

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Impact factor

Impact factor: 1.700 in 2024

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

DOI

UT WoS

001392877000001

Keywords (in Czech)

Equine Archaeology; Zooarchaeology

Keywords in English

Archeologie koní; zooarcheologie

Tags

Tags

International impact, Reviewed
Changed: 9/6/2025 13:34, Mgr. et Mgr. Stanislav Hasil, Ph.D.

Abstract

ORIG CZ

In the original language

‘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.

In Czech

‘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.

Links

CZ.02.01.01/00/22_008/0004593, interní kód MU
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