HORSEPOWER
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Interactions between China, Mongolia and the steppe 2000-0 BCE
Bayarkhuu Noost
Leibniz-Zentrum für Archäologie
"I believe that studying the 'Archaeology of Nomadic Culture' on the Mongolian Plateau provides insights into how horsepower and horseback riding influenced life in the ancient steppes."
Bayarkhuu Noost is an archaeologist with extenstive experience studying nomadic cultures
Bayarkhuu Noost is an accomplished archaeologist with extensive experience studying nomadic cultures, particularly those of the Bronze and Early Iron Ages of Mongolia. He worked for many years as a research fellow at the Institute of Archaeology, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, where he specialised in funerary archaeology. He holds a bachelor's degree in Turkic studies and archaeology from the National University of Mongolia. He later earned a master's degree from the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle (MNHN) in Paris, focusing on horse-accompanied burials from the 6th to 10th centuries AD.
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Pursuing his passion for ancient technologies, Bayarkhuu enrolled in a doctoral program at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), where he focused on the archaeometallurgical study of Mongolia’s western regions, analysing copper-based artefacts from the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages.
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Currently, Bayarkhuu is a researcher on the Horsepower project at the Leibniz-Zentrum für Archäologie (LEIZA) in Mainz, Germany. His main responsibility is to organise and lead excavations in Mongolia under the supervision of Dr Ursula Brosseder and Professor Turbat Tsagaan.