Study: Medieval Warhorses Were No More Than Pony-Sized by Modern Standards archaeology science
Popular culture presents a deep-rooted perception of medieval warhorses as massive and powerful mounts, but medieval textual and iconographic evidence remains highly debated. In new research, archaeologists from the University of Exeter and elsewhere analyzed the zooarchaeological dataset of English horse bones from 171 unique archaeological sites dating between 300 and 1650 CE.
“Neither size, nor limb bone robusticity alone, are enough to confidently identify warhorses in the archaeological record,” said Dr. Helene Benkert, a researcher in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Exeter.“It is much more likely that throughout the medieval period, at different times, different conformations of horses were desirable in response to changing battlefield tactics and cultural preferences.
The high medieval period sees the first emergence of horses of around 16 hands high, although it is not until the post-medieval period that the average height of horses becomes significantly larger, finally approaching the sizes of modern warmblood and draft horses.
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