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0163 Explorations in Turkestan : Expedition of 1904 : vol.2
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[Photo] PL. 73~1 Right branch of lower jaw of Bos brachyceros of medium size from a turbary of Tschontschitz (Bohemia) Museum Teplitz.
[Photo] PL. 73~2 Same bone (restored), Bos namadicus.
[Photo] PL. 73~3 Metacarpus medius of large ox, breed of Ib period.
[Photo] PL. 73~4 Metatarsus medius of small breed of II or metallic period.
[Photo] PL. 73~5,6,7 Phalanx I, II, and III, of larger breed of Ia Period.
[Photo] PL. 73~8,9 Phalanx I and II, smaller breed of II period.
[Photo] PL. 73~10,11 Phalanges of camel.

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doi: 10.20676/00000178
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n, its dimensions are nearly the same
yptian tombs of Sakkara, of which they
et even greater than those of the more

did not belong to a horse, but to a large
ful whether it was at the "fathine"

s of this view is found in the determi-
Pumpelly from the Komond kurga
visit to Anau in 1903. These were ex-
rmination; and among them Tietze det-
as a right scapulof of Equus cabal-
an American zoologist, better read i
the great German paleontologist, wro
ermination: "Not Equus but the bo
water buffalo (Bos bubalis), but to
first decide to which bovine herd be
a taurus species. To do this we m
herd of the Anau kurgan was a di

ormerly in the application of the thou
ginning whether bones belong to a wi

la have been wild for the following reas
the other domestic bovine animal, wh
higher layers of the Anau North Kur
so much heavier and harder than the l
ones are spongy and lighter; (3) bein
long undoubtedly to wild animals in
lly wanting in the higher layers is th
rve that in several recent publicatio
ntented with only one of these condi
of animal.

will inquire what wild bovis we
rehistoric times. The first indicatio
ans.
shed the fact that two wild bovi
language and writing of the Sum
igrated from Iran or Northern Ira
race, have only one word for th
tamed bull's head, written [symbol]=ga, f

Carnegie Institution of Washington Publicati
gypten, Berlin, 1899. Nötscher publicati