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Meet The Team

Horsepower will combine the latest scientific techniques in genetics and metallurgical analysis with theory concerning cosmology, aesthetics and performance to develop a new view of politics and power within and between China and its northern neighbours.

Meet The Team

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Prof Chris Gosden

Principal Investigator

University of Oxford

Prof Ludovic Orlando

Principal Investigator

CNRS and University of Toulouse

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Prof Ursula Brosseder

Principal Investigator

Leibniz-Zentrum für Archäologie

Dr Ruiliang Liu

Principal Investigator

British Museum

“Who wouldn’t be moved by the spectacle of a herd of horses stirring up the dust of lands that were home to vast empires?"

Ludovic Orlando

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Prof Dame Jessica Rawson

University of Oxford

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Xiuzhen Li

University of Oxford

Limin Huan

University of Oxford

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Rory Carnegie

Photographer

David Shukman

Journalist

Miranda Creswell

Artist

Collaborators

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