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Citation Information
356 ANIMAL REMAINS PROM THE EXCAVATIONS AT ANAU.
Table of dimensions (in millimeters).
No. 659.
No. 584.
* After Rütimeyer.
absolute certainty only by comparative experiments with living individuals of both of the respectively postulated ancestors. In the meantime we shall follow the recognized hypothesis of the majority of the authors, namely, that Sus palustris is derived from Sus vittatus, especially since this conception agrees with
the requirements of our special case, and because, contrary to the requirements
li of Nehring's hypothesis, no remains of the large pig (presumably Sus scro f a ferus)
II~ are found in the lower strata. Notwithstanding the fact that the contemporary
1~ climatic conditions were favorable to the breeding of swine, they appear only
North Kurgan, Anau.
Skull.
1-6 ft.
Length from middle of occipital ridge to line of junction between anterior bor-
ders of orbits 116
Length from same point to
coronal suture 51
Greatest width of frontal
bone 82
Length of frontal bone to line of junction between
anterior borders of orbits 61
Height of fossa temporalis 32
Greatest occipital height 92
Least occipital height 62(?
Greatest occipital width . 88
Least parietal width .. 32
Greatest parietal width 72
Width between anterior bor-
ders of orbits 58
Length from anterior to
posterior border of orbit 31
Sus vittatus. (Mus. Bern).
Tame, of the Ba ttaks.
I18
I20
53
55
92
86
75
37
99
76
38
98
34
33
58
54
33
34
Schloss- berg.
La Tène.
Mus. Bern.
Coll. Duerst.
Wild,
Suma-
tra.
Sus scro f a
palustris
(Mus. Bern).
Susscrofa, Tunis (wild boar).
+ 12 to
+15 ft.
1903.
Anau.
+24 +19
ft. ft.
Adult. Adult.
+ 26
ft.
Adult.
Schlossberg.
VindoniFsa, Roman time.
Wild pig
of pile-
dwellings.*
+ 26 ft.
Length of symphysis
Width of corpus between exterior borders of alveoles
of tusks
Width between inner borders
of same
Transverse diameter before
premolar 2.
Height of horizontal branch
before premolar 3
Height of horizontal branch
behind molar 3
Length of molar 3
Width of ascending branch
51 3o
78
123-144
6o
43-46
I16
40
IO2
64
39
IO2
79
IIO
29
81
74
31
113
46
85
67
32
26
53
35
I27
56
IO2
73 42 Io6 82 123 17 78
74
38
99
35
81
57 25 6o 55 88 23 68
6o
30
38
86
65
90
24
69
36
36
84
6o
90
24
72
32
— 8 ft. +2o ft.
125
54
96
58
55
IOI
66
Lower jaw.
45
65
50
70
47
69
47
26
70
62
45
31
34
37
62
45
28
34
37
59
42 3o
33
38
47
30-31
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