Kate Kanne is an anthropological archaeologist investigating the evolution and bioarchaeology of domestication relationships, including agropastoralism, the origins and spread of equestrianism in the European Bronze Age, and the development of mounted warfare, in order to interrogate their effects on the long-term trajectory of sociopolitical and anthropogenic change.
Helene Benkert completed her MSc at the University of Sheffield with a specialisation in zooarchaeology. Her PhD thesis (2023, Exeter) investigated horse stature and morphology in medieval Europe, in collaboration with the AHRC-funded Project “Warhorse – A medieval revolution?”.
After a Master’s degree at Sorbonne Université (France), Camille Vo Van Qui completed a PhD in medieval studies at the University of Exeter (UK), on the topic of “The breaking-in and training of horses in medieval France (1250-1550).” This interdisciplinary project used methodologies from the field of animal studies and a combination of historical, archaeological, and iconographic sources and focusses primarily on French translations of Jordanus Rufus’s De medicina equorum (c. 1250).
