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With respect not only to the metacarpi, but also to the metatarsi, the limbs of the horse of Anau appear remarkably slender and much more gracile than in the horse of La Tène and of Schlossberg. The indices show this very clearly; still, it must be remarked that the horse of Solutré, according to the metatarsi before me, is not nearly so thick-footed as the diluvial horse of Westeregeln and some of the Roman horses from Vindonissa.
Phalanges.—The abundant quantity of phalanges before me from the North Kurgan at Anau was sufficiently considered in the earlier chapter; therefore, I will give here only a comparison of the mean of all of the 29 Anau phalanges with those of the most important European horses.
In respect to their index of width the phalanges of the Anau horse are uncommonly typical. No other horse has an index of 2.8; even the La Tène horse is far from approaching it. It is just in this uncommon slenderness of phalanx I that I see the main evidence of desert life and of training for speed, since the Przewalski horse (3.7), and even the Turkestan horse of Nehring (3.9) show the next indices.
THE BONES Or THE EXTREMITIES. 425
where the forward and back parts come together—is just as much hollowed out in the Anau horse as in Equus stenonis, therefore much more deepened than in the Quaternary horses and in Equus przewalskii. The Anau horse has, therefore, in this respect also, preserved an ancient character.
Table of dimensions.
Ossa metatarsi medii.
— Io ft. North Kur-
Anau{ ,+2g6 ft. North Kur-
t gan.
La Tène, Mus. Bern
Langugest, Slavian time....
Schlossberg, iron time
Spandau, bronze time
Gross Czernosek, La Tène ..
Vindonissa castrum
Gross Czernosek, Lausitz
Schlossberg, large breed
Equus przewalskii juv., Bern
Solutré paleolithic
Petersinsel, bronze time ....
Vindonissa circus.
Equus przewalskii Salenski.
Kesslerloch, paleolithic, after
Hescheler
Hostomitz, iron time
Gross Czernosek, neolithic
time
Schlossberg, large breed
Vindonissa circus .
Westeregeln, diluvial horse,
after Nehring
Remagen, diluvial horse,
after Nehring
Greatest length.
mm.
256
264
214
230
234
237
237
238
242
246
256
257
258
258
259
260
262
268
273
274
273
281
285
Width.
Diameter.
Proxi-
mal
part.
Median part.
Proxi-
mal
part.
Median part.
Distal part.
Distal part.
Index.
mm.
40
41
38
40
44
42
42
47
46
44
46
50
50
45
48
49
45
50
50
49
56 6o
mm.
27
25
24
23
25
28
25
28
31
30
30
25
35
35
27
30
31
31
29
33
30
37
39
mm.
37
38
40
37
42
44
40
42
46
45
45
44
51
mm.
38
36.
33
30
41
34
42
38
40
39
44
50 44
41 27
47 40
47 ••••
48-55 ....
48 42
47 43
47 43
49 43
57
57
I0.5
9.5
II.2
10.0
10.5
II.8 10.6 12.2 12.2
II.8
13.6
9.0
II.8
13.5
10.4
11.5
II.8
11.5
Io.6
I2.0
10.9
13.I
13.6
mm.
30
31
30
28
37
33
34
32
33
33
35
38
32
34
36
38
38
36
mm.
27
25
20
21
23
28
25
26
27
29
23
32
32
23
27
31
29
30
33
Length of exterior side.
mm.
250
205
220
226
228
229 . 230 235 238 250 250
252
247
250
253
252
260
265
260
261
270
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