Hello again Zooarch,
First of all, many thanks to everyone who responded to my posting a few weeks ago
concerning a possible skinned or butchered wolf.
Among the equid material from the same site is a metacarpal with a GL measurement of
235mm. Unfortunately I've had a great deal of trouble finding relevant data, including how to
estimate size from cannon bones and comparable measurements from other sites, but what
little I have read seems to indicate that this metacarpal is unusually large for ancient horses,
especially in Roman Italy.
Could anyone help me to locate:
1. The equation for estimating height from cannon bone measurements
2. Any sites (from any period or region) with horses of similar size?
Thanks again,
Elan Love
Oberlin College
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