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T. Dobosi Viola: Őskori telepek Boldogkőváralja környékén - Gyarmati Pál: A boldogkőváraljai régészeti anyag kőzettani vizsgálata. Függelék

YC'ILD EQUIDS 61 in the same degree in NW-Middle and Eastern Europe. The Carpathian Basin with its smaller culmination of wild horses differs from the Middle and Eastern­European zones (Fig. 13). It can be established also from the expansion range of Mesolithic wild horses that in Europe lived types which were even ecologically extremely different. In the Carpathian Basin four Early Holocene sites yielded wild horses. They are: Smolin. Sered I. 7 2 Kulna Cave 7 3 (Southern Moravia) all are Mesolithic settlements; and Szabadszállás-Tőzegtelep (peat-bog). Except Szabadszállás these sites are in a mountainous environment. The wild horses found in Szabad­szállás had a slender jaw (skull) and microdont dentition. The long bones and their fragments indicate also slender animals. The withersheights calculated from the length of metatarsus bones by the Vitt's method 7 4 are: 1310, 1360, 1450 7 2 Bár/a, J., Die mittlere. . . 64—. 7 3 Jarman, M. R., loc. cit. 7 1 Vitt, V. О., Losadi pazyrykskih kurganov. SA 16(1952) 163—205. Tabl. 1. Fig. 13. Faunal dominancy of Mesolithic wild horses per cent 13. ábra A mezolit vadlovak faunadominanciája — %

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