Description: Explores human-horse relationship on a variety of levels and at different time periods, with an emphasis on the social and cultural significance of the horse, zooarchaeological evidence, the role of horses in combat and ritual contexts and the relationship between horse and rider in iconography, art and burial rites.
Brief description: Fernando Coimbra holds a PhD from the University of Salamanca and Post-doctoral research in rock art in the Geosciences Centre (University of Coimbra). His studies of rock art inspired a further interest in horses and their role in society, especially in protohistory. In 2013 he coordinated an international congress about the horse and the bull in prehistory and in history. He is a visiting professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Tomar, in Portugal.