Jessica, there are several places you can get some help on this. One is
anything by Ann Hyland. She does not draw reconstructions, but she does
give a lot of specific information on horses of various historical eras.
Another place is my "Conquerors: The Roots of New World Horsemanship",
which is about 45% devoted to the Eurasian history prior to Columbus
bringing the first domestic horses to the Western Hemisphere. Here I
reproduce in exact detail contemporaneous Roman drawings of Roman horses,
and reconstruct some pre-Roman types as well.
You should also go to my website, www.equinestudies.org, and look in
"Knowledge Base". There you will find two papers that will be of use: one,
the "Mammalian Species" account of Equus caballus co-authored by me and
Robert S. Hoffmann. This is an "upgraded" version of the original 1999
paper published by the American Society of Mammalogists, containing many
photos of skulls and other illustrations that were not in the original
paper but that are good to have.
The other paper in "Knowledge Base" that may be of great use to you is the
"Origin of the Arab, Barb, and Mustang" paper, which contains my
reconstructions of these breeds and some ancient Afro-Turkic types
(summarized out of "Conquerors", so you may find that handy). In both this
paper and the "Mammalian Species" account you will find zoogeographic maps
detailing the origin of each subspecies/general physical type, which
should inform anyone's concept of what horses from different geographical
areas looked like. To go with this, I reproduce Trumler's original 1961
reconstruction-drawings of the four basic body morphologies in domestic
horses, which are excellent. -- Deb Bennett
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> Our drawing office is currently having a go at reconstructing domestic
> animals for educational use... And they are a bit frustrated that I
> can't tell them what a bronze age, an iron age, a roman etc. horse
> exactly looked like. Is there any literature on actually trying to
> reconstruct their shape in the different periods in Britain? I would
> normally not go there as I usually only find a few horse remains per
> excavation.
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> Any help greatly appreciated!
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