374 ANIMAL REMAINS FROM THE EXCAVATIONS AT ANAU. 
development of horns* have shown that it is the horn-sheath which causes the form 
of the horn, and since, on the other hand, a retardation of the development occurs 
under domestication in the sense that the growth of the horn remains fixed at the 
stage of an earlier youthful form, it is easy to understand that only a sheep which 
is flat-horned in its youth could have produced a sheep with compressed horns like 
the turbary sheep of Riitimeyer. é 
Table of dimensions (in millimeters). 














| - Eo ieeay “ee og ‘2 
| s lds | 10 a =i Ay 
<a oan ee mw & L 
| > Bm | 8g bp oO < 
= CS - e ae = ar 5 
Skull of Ovts aries palustris Riitimeyer. ape ee | 23 : = oO | g 
ge) oe ) pees) oes a ae ae 
GE ae ahd ©} yn ey 
| se | seg|eee| EG | dee] & 
ee ae ers ed rh a gzA 7) 
iY Sz n S R= Oo x 
= a =e == =— = | = | —— <i —_—— —-| 
Front line between base of horn-cores......... 25a tS 65 43 47 45 
Back line between base of same.............. 73 78 81 81 82 76 
Greatest width of occiput. ewer sees Pees 67 69 67 69 
Least width-ot same: (ao..we wets erate Ngee 50 39 48 42 
Greatest height Of same: jo nc ascuie e  eee AQ 49 50 49 51 
Least height‘of same@o. og4. mast nen ase 34 32 30 34 
Greatest width. of parietals 7. .2,.mcsueen 62 | 68 73 68 69 
Least: width of Same. sie ance eee 41 | 40 39 41 4I 
Parietal heighit se. 20 Aone oe oe eed ee <7) ee 28 29 22 30 
Longitudinal diameter of horn-core........... 45 37 28 52 26 29 
Transverse diameter of same..............-.. 26 18 20 21 ri 20 
Circumference of corejat basesnc ee tee TLS en LOO: 79 95 75 87 
| Length ofsbor-core sa ceeweeure nea an een 195. 0'b> 178= i Erse 110 80 110 
| Distance between points.................00. 248." il voirae I pees Ae 169 
Length | Length Width of 
: . Entire of of vertical 
Lower jaw of adult Ovis. "fe ee part be- 
| length. | dental toothless hires 
series. part. BS 
North Kurgan, Anau: | 
wm £5 Fett vcd wick ie 0s teenies Sie OR at aaa eae *180 (?) 76 45 *60 (?) 
= 15 feet ite. car ca hee ce eee nee eee Ree 78 45 see 
“6 feet 0. Seve earache on Aer cere ete Ties aes 54 
+20 feet ccgptiia piv sauaists bx eae errant eee nena eee eee 167 71 43 59 
+23 feet a3. Bi 2 aes Aen eee ee eee 152 71 42 46 
+24 feet .. ete tguae ee ot ree aia ee bie ha arene 170 a1 48 50 
Outs mignet, Ladaks Mus, London: see ee See 190 81 47 56 
Ovis aries palustris, from Ireland, Mus. Paris..........| L73 71 42 5! 
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* Measurements on incomplete pieces. 
The appearance of the horn-cores of the turbary sheep and the goat-horned 
sheep mentioned in the eneolithic and copper-culture strata of Anau may, there- 
fore, easily be considered the remains of an autochthonously derived domesticated 
form, especially because of the quantity of transitional forms to the large-horned 
sheep. 

* Duerst, Versuch einer Entwicklungsgeschichte der Hoerner der Cavicornia, Frauenfeld, 1902. Sur 
le développement des cornes chez les Cavicornes. Bull. Mus. d’Hist. Nat., 1902, p. 197. 
