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Early horse remains from northern Cameroon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Scott MacEachern,
Claire Bourges and
Maureen Reeves
Scott MacEachern
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Bowdoin College, Brunswick ME 04011, USA.
Claire Bourges
Affiliation:
2239 3rd Ave. NW, Calgary, Alberta, T2N 0K7 Canada.
Maureen Reeves
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, T2N 1N4 Canada.
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Extract

Horses were status symbols in central-west Africa in the last millennium. Here, the importance of some very early horse bones is discussed in the context of emerging African society.

Keywords

horseCameroonWandalaarchaeozoologySudanic zonepony

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Antiquity , Volume 75 , Issue 287 , March 2001, pp. 62 - 67
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2001

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