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0256 Explorations in Turkestan : Expedition of 1904 : vol.2
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We see here, too, the above-mentioned relation of the Anau horse to the
bronze-age horse and to *Equus przewalskii*; and of the Vindonissa horse to the
diluvial horse. At the same time, since we have here to do with articulation, it
is clear that, as stated by Kraemer,* the joints of the slender-limbed horses are
relatively stouter and broader than those of other horses. This relation appears
just here, since the lengths of the femora from Anau hardly exceed 300 mm. while
those from Vindonissa measure 350, those from Westeregeln were about as large,†
and those from Cardamone as much, indeed, as 414 mm.

We must also make some remarks in regard to the *tibiæ*, although these were
considered at length in the first part of my report. The smallest of all here appear
to be the tibiæ from Tschontschitz, which the turbary find seems to date from a
relatively late time, probably in the bronze age. Those from Anau and Spandau