SEAA News Blog: Adjacent Regions

Horse Power will examine the complex interactions between the eastern steppe and China from the second millennium BCE to the formation of the Xiongnu empire in Mongolia and the Qin state in China after 300 BCE. To examine the connections between the steppe, Mongolia and China’s Central Plains we will combine the latest scientific techniques in genetics and metallurgical analysis with theory concerning politics and power within and between China and its northern neighbours.

Representing the lifetime achievement of the late Emma C. Bunker and written in a spirit of collaboration together with Ursula Brosseder, this book presents a private collection of bronzes that are mostly associated with the pastoral peoples who inhabited the vast eastern Eurasian steppes.