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Tracing Comanche history: Eighteenthcentury rock art depictions of leatherarmoured horses from the Arkansas River basin, south-eastern Colorado, USA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Mark D. Mitchell
Mark D. Mitchell*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA
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Depictions on rock in south-east Colorado show mounted warriors with horses clad in leather armour. This was the military strategy adopted by Comanche and Apache peoples between 1650 and 1750 – after the arrival of the horse and before the availability of firearms.

Keywords

Rock artPlains Indianscentral Plainsmilitary tacticsleather armour
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Antiquity , Volume 78 , Issue 299 , March 2004 , pp. 115 - 126
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2004

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