{"id":3261,"date":"2016-03-11T20:07:01","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T16:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ra.iaran.ru\/?page_id=3261"},"modified":"2016-03-11T20:07:01","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T16:07:01","slug":"early-medieval-horses-from-the-second-half-of-the-9th-beginning-of-the-10th-cc-at-ruriks-hillfort","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.ra.iaran.ru\/?page_id=3261&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Early medieval horses from the second half of the 9th \u2013 beginning of the 10th cc. at Rurik\u2019s hillfort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Spasskaya N.N., Sablin M.V., Mikhailov K.A.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Key words: <\/strong><em>horses, morphology, breeds, palaeozoology, Rurik\u2019s (Novgorod) hillfort, Viking Age.<\/em><br \/>\nThe article studies the bone remains of horses that were found in strata dating from the 9th \u2013 early 10th cc. in Novgorod (Rurik\u2019s hillfort). The material comes from small specimens with a rough body composition, which are morphologically similar to existing aboriginal breeds: Mongol, Kazakh, Polish primitive horse. The bones bear no traces of butchering, hence there is no indication that the horses could have been eaten. All the skulls belonged to stallions, 5 to 15 years old, which had been actively used for riding. All of the above indicates the possible military, or druzhina, nature of the site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spasskaya N.N., Sablin M.V., Mikhailov K.A. Key words: horses, morphology, breeds, palaeozoology, Rurik\u2019s (Novgorod) hillfort, Viking Age. The article studies the bone remains of horses that were found in strata dating from the 9th \u2013 early 10th cc. in Novgorod (Rurik\u2019s hillfort). The material comes from small specimens with a rough body composition, which are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":160,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3261","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ra.iaran.ru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ra.iaran.ru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ra.iaran.ru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ra.iaran.ru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ra.iaran.ru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.ra.iaran.ru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3262,"href":"http:\/\/www.ra.iaran.ru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3261\/revisions\/3262"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ra.iaran.ru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ra.iaran.ru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}