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Ann Knapp's Articles in Animals

  • Horses In Art, Literature And Mythology
    Few animals have influenced the history of human culture like the horse. These four-legged running machines gave us food, mobility, and enhanced success at hunting hard-to-catch animals. And the influence goes both ways: archaeologists say that horse skeletons dating from 2000-2500 BCE already show differences from those of wild horses that attest to the effects of breeding and (partial) domestic
  • Horses In Art, Literature And Mythology II
    European artists and storytellers had a rich tradition to draw on in depicting the sometimes-crucial relationship between humans and horses. Greek and Roman myth yielded such vivid horse-characters as the winged Pegasus, the man-eating Mares of Diomedes, and the horses who drive Apollo's sun-chariot across the sky. More recent Norse mythology, also, associated horses with nobility and power.
  • Horses In Art, Literature And Mythology III
    During the twentieth century, representational paintings of horses became increasingly the domain of "horse painters" such as Richard Stone Reeves (1919-2005). The New York City-born artist is, himself, representational of this genre of painting.
  • Unnatural Selection: A Brief History Of Horse Breeding
    In that rough, cold, open environment (centered on what is now Ukraine), archaeologists find evidence of the use of bits in the 6000-year-old remains of horse teeth. (Other evidence from this era and area includes the appearance of horse bones in human graves - apparently cowboys weren't the first to insist on being buried with their loyal steeds.)



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