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Ossa metacarpi medii.

Length. Width. Diameter.
Greatest. | Exterior side. | Proximal part. | Median. | Distal. | Proximal. | Median. | Distal. | Index.

mm. mm. mm. mm. mm. mm. mm. mm.

Anau:
−21 ft........................ 228 220 47 29 42 31 22 32 12.8
−15 ft........................ .... .... .... 23 41 .... .... 30 ....
+ 8 ft........................ .... .... 31 44 .... 24 32 ....
+33 ft........................ 220 .... 44 27 40 30 .... 28 12.3
Gross Czernosek (La Tène)........ 198 192 44 27 42 30 21 31 13.6
Hostomitz (bronze time).......... 200 191 46 29 45 30 28 34 14.5
Stankowitz (La Tène)............. 216 206 46 30 46 29 21 34 14.0
Couvres (?)...................... 214 .... 54 34 50 35 29 38 15.8
Curchy (?)...................... 216 .... 48 39 50 32 27 32 18.0
Louverné neolithic (?)........... 217 .... 50 38 50 32 28 28 17.7
Cindré (paleolithic)............. 219 .... 60 42 50 37 29 32 19.2
Fouvent (neolithic).............. 217 .... 52 40 50 32 27 32 18.4
*Equus przewalskii* Salenski...... 215 206 48 32 44 .... .... .... 14.8
*Equus przewalskii* juv. Bern, Kraemer....................... 204 .... .... 29 .... .... .... .... 14.2
Solutré, Bern.................... 218 211 49 35 48 33 25 36 16.0
Wohontsch a. Biela (neolithic).... 220 213 49 31 46 31 21 33 14.0
Leitmeritz, A. (neolithic)....... 223 213 44 31 47 30 22 32 13.9
Solutré, Bern.................. 217 .... 50 36 48 33 25 37 16.3
{ 224 214 50 35 47 32 23 33 15.6
Schlossberg (iron age)........... 222 213 49 34 49 33 27 33 15.3
Vindonissa:
Amphitheater................... 226 218 47 30 43 31 21 31 13.2
Amphitheater................... 227 219 49 32 47 31 23 35 14.0
Castrum....................... 228 217 50 32 47 33 23 35 14.9
Castrum....................... 230 220 49 30 48 36 22 34 13.4
Castrum....................... 230 220 52 32 49 33 23 35 13.4
Castrum....................... 230 221 48 32 49 32 22 35 11.4
Westeregeln, Nehring (diluvial)... 235 .... 57 41 55 .... .... .... 17.4
Rixdorf, Nehring (diluvial)...... 249 .... 59 44 56 .... .... .... 17.6

This comparative table shows distinctly the relation already noticed in the bones of the other extremities, that the horse of Anau agrees remarkably well with those of the European bronze age and of the later La Tene phase of the iron age. It shows, however, further, that among the horses of Solutré there occur adult