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Isolated upper cheek tooth of horse Equus ferus caballus: A, upper view; B, labial view; C, lingual view.
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The present paper describes an archaeozoological assemblage from Late Eneolithic settlement of Gordineşti II-Stînca goală. The studied osteological material is characterized by low number of remains of wild animals, the predominant position of cattle and small cattle (with apparent importance of Capra hircus among small cattle), sparce remains of h...
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... finding of a single damaged upper cheek horse tooth is interesting. The tooth ( fig. 2) is burnt and is not touched by physiological wear and thus belongs to a juvenile individual. The rather long tooth's protocone (14.2 mm) distinguishes the specimen under study from the wild European tarpan. The length of protocone in upper cheek teeth varies in tarpan between 10.0 and 11.5 mm [Gromova 1949]. Therefore, we assume that ...
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