Greetings,
I'm not sure quite what you're looking for wrt the horse but I will
say this. The Thoroughbred is a specific breed of horse all of whose
exemplars descend from three foundation sires in the 17th c. so your
horse, unless it is very modern can't be a thoroughbred in the true
sense of the word. Perhaps you're thinking it may have been of
Arabian origin as those horses (from whom thoroughbreds derive) have
very distinctive features.
Best,
SallyW
At 11:09 AM +0100 1/16/05, Alfred Galik wrote:
>dear zooarchers
>
>i got some strange horse remains from a small roman grave yard in austria,
>two horse/dog burials were excavated there. one of the horse specimens is
>nicely and neaerly completely preserved. i compared the scull to numerous
>roman and very early medieval horse sculls, but the form still remained
>"strange". it fits best to a oriental thoroughbred specimen (a homi mare)
>from the natural history museum in vienna.
>i think the most valid trait is the position of the orbita, in comparison to
>the other sculls it looks a bit "displaced". the number of lumbar vertebrae
>is regular. however the dog, which was additionally buried to the horse,
>shows similarities to the appaerance of a greyhound- or barsoi-typus,
>although it doesn't fit perfectly to modern breeds. The other horse is
>unfortunately very incomplete, whereas the second dog lies in the variation
>of known archaeological specimens.
>i still have problems bringing myself to address these remains as oriental
>imports.... is anything known about such "imports" at any other
>archaeological sites?? or has anybody experience dealing with such a topic??
>
>alfred
>
>
>Alfred Galik, Mag. Dr.
>Dept. of Anatomy
>Unit on Archaeozoology and Comp. Morphology
>University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
>Veterinaerplatz 1
>A-1210 Wien
>Austria
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