354 ANIMAL REMAINS FROM THE EXCAVATIONS AT ANAU. 
occipital triangle, which varies here between 1:0.74 to 1 0.78. In Cants mairas 
optime this ratio, according to Studer, is generally 1:0.74 to 1:0.81 and in the 
wolf 1 :0.91. That Canis matris optime occurred also in ancient Greece is shown 
by a skull in Jeitteles’s collection, which is said to have come from a find in Greece 
(see table). 
We have thus seen that the Assyro-Babylonian culture in all probability 
did not possess the dog of the metal period of the North Kurgan of Anau and 
therefore probably had no relation with the Anau people; but that, on the other 
hand, this dog is found in ancient Egypt—provided Jeitteles’s original determina- 
tions are correct—and that we have here no such parallelism of forms as exists 
in the opinion of Studer already mentioned. It is, therefore, not improbable 
that the primitive Egyptians, who, in the opinion of most Egyptologists as well 
as myself (cf. Die Rinder von Babylonien, Assyrien und Aegypten, p. 73, Berlin, 
1899), migrated from Central Asia via the Red Sea to Egypt, brought with them 
this dog as well as the long-horned cattle which originated in Central Asia. 
This is an attractive conjecture which follows logically upon what has been said. 
"The appearance of Canis matris optime in Greece is not astonishing, but forms 
the connection of the Anau dog with Central European finds, which are especially 
abundant in Austria. Migrations of peoples and commercial intercourse had, 
therefore, at a remote time brought this dog from inner Asia into the heart of 
Europe. 
Ordo RODENTIA. 
MURIDA. 
Arvicola sp. 
Asa recent interloper we have the lower jaw with all the teeth of a mouse. 


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