The Coming of the Greeks. Indo-European Conquests in the Aegean and the Near East

The New Warfare in Europe, the Eurasian steppe, and at Troy, it is a valid gen- eralization that in the Fertile Crescent the hor ...

The Coming of the Greeks horses are encountered, they are almost invariably pulling chariots (the exceptions are the rare scenes ...

The New Warfare 4 Chariot from tomb at Egyptian Thebes. spoke-lashings of birch bark. 28 Occasionally, chariot wheels were bound ...

The Coming of the Greeks Spare parts—wheels, axles, poles, and boxes—were carried along on campaigns, and the Linear B tablets h ...

The New Warfare 5 Detail from stone relief of Ramesses III, Medinet Habu. is, unfortunately, a matter of dispute. Some toxophile ...

The Coming of the Greeks appears to have had two quivers, each containing thirty to forty arrows. A whip and a shield were stand ...

The New Warfare fighters, like their counterparts in the Fertile Crescent and in Egypt, were archers. 39 In the early days of ch ...

The Coming of the Greeks rectly related to the length of its legs. Kings were understand- ably assiduous in acquiring the best s ...

The New Warfare handful of chopped green grass, mixed together. When they have eaten all up, they are to be pick- eted. 43 Kikku ...

The Coming of the Greeks throughout the Near East, and in fact a single chariot type was employed from Greece to India (the Hitt ...

The New Warfare Chronology Let us now look at the chronological question in detail. Surveys of this kind become obsolete as new ...

The Coming of the Greeks Level II at Kiiltepe (probably 1910-1840 B.C. on the high chronology), 48 shows a team pulling a chario ...

6 Detail from cylinder seal impression, Kultepe. 7 Detail from cylinder seal impression. ...

The Coming of the Greeks Clearly the nose-ring-and-line mechanism would not have been satisfactory for a team of horses gallopin ...

The New Warfare headstall cannot be detected in such miniatute scenes, it is probable that the reins were attached to a bit. 56 ...

The Coming of the Greeks the Anatolian sealings mentioned above portray two-wheeled "chariots" with four-spoked wheels. In addit ...

The New Warfare horse and two-horse teams) and to their grooms. 62 Another tablet of the same date, found in the archives at Mar ...

The Coming of the Greeks the chariot had only peaceful uses ca. 1800 B.C. For Near East- erners of the time, after all, it would ...

The New Warfare amount of which has survived (one would have expected, for example, that the chariot would appear in the frescoe ...

The Coming of the Greeks inclines toward the conclusion that—whatever the sixteenth- and thirteenth-century scribes may have tho ...