Details Emerge on Trade of Horses for Sacrifice During the Viking Age
<div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="schema:primaryImageOfPage og:image rdfs:seeAlso" resource="https://www.ancient-origins.net/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/Details-Emerge-Trade-Horses.jpg?itok=KEQ9eNc2"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://www.ancient-origins.net/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/Details-Emerge-Trade-Horses.jpg?itok=KEQ9eNc2" width="610" height="342" alt="Reconstruction of a sacrificial horse deposit at Paprotki Kolonia, modern Poland. " /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="schema:description content:encoded"><p><a href="https://theconversation.com/profiles/katherine-french-1545224" rel="nofollow">
Katherine French[/url]
& <a href="https://theconversation.com/profiles/richard-madgwick-308220" rel="nofollow">
Richard Madgwick[/url]
/The Conversation</p>
<p>Prehistoric communities from Iceland to the? Eurasian Steppe? sacrificed horses as part of their funeral rites. These Baltic tribes, known as the? Balts, sacrificed horses longer than anywhere else in Europe, up until the 14th century. Christians despised this practice, however, and it quickly fell out of favor once a community converted to
Christianity.</p>
<p>Archaeologists have studied Baltic sacrificial deposits for nearly 200 years. Two characteristics? <a href="
https://e-journals.ku.lt/journal/AB/article/1147/file/pdf" rel="nofollow">had seemed settled[/url]? – that stallions were exclusively sacrificed, and that the Balts sourced their horses from the local? tarpan horse? population, commonly known as “forest” or “wild” horses.</p>
<p>However, our team’s? <a href="
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ado3529" rel="nofollow">latest research[/url]? challenges these “facts” about the last horse sacrifices in Europe. It shows that about a third of sacrificial horses were, in fact, mares – and surprisingly, that some horses began their life in Christian Scandinavia and ended up across the Baltic Sea as sacrificial victims.</p>
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