Thrilled that my article on postal horses in ancient China has been published in the latest #AnimalHistory! 🐎 What do excavated administrative texts from 1st C. BCE-CE tell us about equine life and labour on the edge of empire? A lot, it turns out! (1/4) #Xuanquan #postalhorses ✉️🛞🐴
This article seeks to expand the history of pre-industrial animal labor beyond the farmyard. Centering on China’s ancient postal system, it approaches a surviving corpus of over 20,000 excavated admin...
