372 ANIMAL REMAINS FROM THE EXCAVATIONS AT ANAU. 
A second category of horn-cores also belongs here. It is difficult to dis- 
tinguish them in size from those which in the next section we shall indicate as 
belonging to Ovs arkal palustris, but upon taking these cores into the hand one 
recognizes, by the exceptional weight as well as by the remarkably hard structure 
of the core to which the exceptional weight is due, that we have here something 
different. In addition to this, the shape of the horn-core is somewhat different, 
becoming more sharply pointed towards the ends. 
These characteristics suffice to assign these horn-cores to the females of the 
Ovis vignet arkal. A confirmation of this is found in a frontal piece, which, from 
the peculiar form of the superorbital part of the frontal bone, seems to have 
belonged to a female skull of Ovis vignet. 
In the following table are given the dimensions of this bone in comparison 
with those of the adult female, Ovis vignei of the Salt Range, in the British Museum, 
and also the dimensions of the horn-cores. ; 
Table of dimensions, female Ovis vigner (in millimeters). 


Frontal bone. Horn-cores. 

Greatest} Least 
width | width Long 
between | between | diameter 
| | Circum-| Longi- | Trans- 
| pro-_ | bases of | of 
| 
| 
Length. | ference ieee ace 
, at base, (dlameter| diameter 
cessus | horn- | orbita. ‘| at base. | at base. 
orbitalis., cores. | 


| North, Korrgpans Anat sree ee as | 10.3 72 35 ere ateeihe or kets 
= TS fECE ON cee ee pte Cee ae By ane rae fhe 150 83 30 17 
| 2+ 8 fet rahe cs tat scree eet tek ahs bhepeh 144 80 28 18 







| Salt Range, Tadia® © 90. 5 wavs fee <6 ae 10.5 74 36 75 82 28 19 
| / | 
* Horn-cores No, 666 K, British Museum. 

The peculiar form of these bones and the curvature of the horn-cores make 
it certain that they belong to a female Ovis vignet. Which bones of the trunk 
and extremities are to be assigned to the Ovis vignez it is naturally difficult to say. 
Only out of the aifference in size, as contrasted with those of Ovis palustris, is 
it possible to draw some slight inferences. Therefore we will be right in assigning 
all the large extremity bones from the lower culture-strata to the wild sheep, 
while bringing them into the same tables with the domesticated sheep. 
DoMESTIC SHEEP. 
We now pass to the consideration of a series of horn-cores which are sharply 
distinguished, as I have already said, from those of the Ovis vignet. They are 
of almost similar aspect and form, but are shorter, somewhat more slender, and 
lighter and more porous in structure. This last characteristic seems particularly 
important; as except for it I might properly be confronted with the objection 
that these horn-cores perhaps belonged to younger or female individuals of the 
Ovis vignet. This objection, however, is contradicted by the more porous structure, 
the more extensive formation of sinus in the interior of the horn-core and their 
consequently thinner walls; for it is firmly established, that under domestication 
