Imhof U
Schweiz Arch Tierheilkd. 2004 Jan;146(1):17-9, 21-5. doi: 10.1024/0036-7281.146.1.17.
The horse was domesticated by a people in Central Asia. However, it is not known where and who invented horse shoeing, an invention that increased the possibilities for using horses. The word "horseshoe" was first mentioned in a document from 826 p.c. Up to now an archaeologist couldn't date an excavated horseshoe. I succeeded now to establish a chronology for horseshoes found in Switzerland. The first realisation is that in the course of more than thousand years of horse shoeing history three basic forms followed each other. Moreover, the existing horseshoes can be allocated to periodical types, each in use for approximately a quarter of a century.
马是由中亚的一个民族驯化的。然而，人们并不清楚马蹄铁的发明地点和发明者，马蹄铁的发明增加了使用马匹的可能性。“马蹄铁”这个词最早在公元826年的一份文献中被提及。到目前为止，考古学家还无法确定出土马蹄铁的年代。我现在成功地为在瑞士发现的马蹄铁建立了一个年代顺序。首先认识到的是，在一千多年的马蹄铁使用历史中，三种基本形式相继出现。此外，现有的马蹄铁可以归为不同的时期类型，每种类型大约使用四分之一个世纪。
