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374   ANIMAL, REMAINS FROM THE EXCAVATIONS AT ANAU.

development of horns* have shown that it is the horn-sheath which causes the form of the horn, and since, on the other hand, a retardation of the development occurs under domestication in the sense that the growth of the horn remains fixed at the stage of an earlier youthful form, it is easy to understand that only a sheep which is flat-horned in its youth could have produced a sheep with compressed horns like the turbary sheep. of Rütimeyer.

Table of dimensions (in millimeters) .

Skull of Ovis aries palustris Rütimeyer.

Front line between base of horn-cores   

Back line between base of same   

Greatest width of occiput   

Least width of same   

Greatest height of same   

Least height of same   

Greatest width of parietals   

Least width of same   

Parietal height   

Longitudinal diameter of horn-core   

Transverse diameter of same   

Circumference of core at base   

Length of horn-core   

Distance between points   

47

82

67

48

49 3o

68 41 22 26 15 75 8o I 69

43

78

65

81

67 5o

37

18

I00

78

49

68 40 28 28 20 79 150 267

43 81 69 39 5o 32 73 39 29

32 2I

95 I TO

45 73 73 42 49 32 62 41 31 45 26

I15

195

248

Iceland, recent, Pa

45 76 69 42 51 34 69 41 3o 29 20 87

IIO

Length
of
dental
series.

Length
of
toothless
part.

Width of vertical part behind first molar.

Lower jaw of adult Ovis.

Entire length.

North Kurgan, Anau:

—15 feet   

—15 feet   

+6 feet   

+20 feet   

+23 feet   

+24 feet   

Ovis vignei, Ladak, Mus. London   

Ovis aries palustris, from Ireland, Mus. Paris    

• 75 78 71 71 71 71 81 71

*60 (?)

54

59

46

5o

56

51

* Measurements on incomplete pieces.

The appearance of the horn-cores of the turbary sheep and the goat-horned sheep mentioned in the æneolithic and copper-culture strata of Anau may, therefore, easily be considered the remains of an autochthonously derived domesticated form, especially because of the quantity of transitional forms to the large-horned sheep.

* Duerst, Versuch einer Entwicklungsgeschichte der Hoerner der Cavicornia, Frauenfeld, 1902. Sur le développement des comes chez les Cavicornes. Bull. Mus. d'Hist. Nat., 1902, p. 197. •

*180 (?)

167

152

I70

190

173

45

45

43 42 48 47 42