Laufer, Berthold, 1874-1934 · Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History · leaf 159
Chinese Clay Figures roughly dated in the time of the Siberian iron age, and is surely coevalwith the period of Chinese-Turkish relations in the epoch of the Han. In fact, the Turkish tribes who fought the Chinese at that time hadundergone a similar development from the primitive and crude… … Mounted Lancer Clad with Plate Mail, Rock-Carving on the Yenisei, Siberia (from Inscriptions de llenissei, Helsingfors, 1889). meval Chinese did not possess cavalry, and that their battles were foughtby soldiers on foot or in war-chariots (p. 185). We know, further, thatthe tactics of mounted…
Sculpture -- China · Arms and armor, Chinese · China -- Antiquities
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