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Explorations in Turkestan : Expedition of 1904 : vol.2 |
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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.
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