HORSEPOWER
Interactions between China, Mongolia and the steppe 2000-0 BCE
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
Prof Chris Gosden
Principal Investigator
University of Oxford
Prof Ludovic Orlando
Principal Investigator
CNRS and University of Toulouse
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
Prof Dame Jessica Rawson
University of Oxford
Dr Xiuzhen Li
University of Oxford
Dr Limin Huan
University of Oxford
Rory Carnegie
Photographer
David Shukman
Journalist
Miranda Creswell
Artist
Gaétan Tressieres
CNRS and University of Toulouse
Akari Goda-Maurezzutt
University of Oxford and British Museum
Dr Yuri Esin
Leibniz-Zentrum für Archäologie
Dr Richard Staff
University of Oxford
Dr Tsagaan Turbat
Leibniz-Zentrum für Archäologie
Dr Aude Mongiatti
British Museum
Bayarkhuu Noost
Leibniz-Zentrum für Archäologie
Dr Saltanat Amir
British Museum
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