The origin and influence of the thoroughbred horse . bs were strong, with large articulations, prominent muscularattachments, and broad hoofs^. It is noteworthy that in theleg the metacarpal and metatarsal vestigial bones were notunited to the main bone, as is usually the case with modern 1 It is worth noting that the head and teeth in one of the varieties ofPrejvalskys horse are relatively very large (J. C. E.).- Munro, Arch. Jour. Vol. lix. pp. 114 sqq. Ill] AND HISTORIC TIMES 85 liorses, a fjict which supplies an intermediate link between thelatter and the Hipparion. The investigations of M
The origin and influence of the thoroughbred horse . bs were strong, with large articulations, prominent muscularattachments, and broad hoofs^. It is noteworthy that in theleg the metacarpal and metatarsal vestigial bones were notunited to the main bone, as is usually the case with modern 1 It is worth noting that the head and teeth in one of the varieties ofPrejvalskys horse are relatively very large (J. C. E.).- Munro, Arch. Jour. Vol. lix. pp. 114 sqq. Ill] AND HISTORIC TIMES 85 liorses, a fjict which supplies an intermediate link between thelatter and the Hipparion. The investigations of MM. Lartet and Chxisty in the cavesof the Vezere (Dordogne) have revealed bones of the Equuscahallus in great abundance, for in the list of animals whosebones were found in greatest numbers in the caves of LaMadelainc, Laugerie, and Les Eyzies, Equus cahallus headsthe list, followed by Sus scrofa, Cervus tarandus, C. elaphus, , the Irish elk, and various others ^ Of seven bone-yielding caves of Vezere all save one supplied remains of the. Fig. 42. Head of Prehistoric Horse: Gourdan. horse^ At the famous rock-shelter of Cro-Magnon the bonesof the horse were more numerous than those of any otheranimal, and M. Lartet^ rightly inferred that it must haveformed the chief food of its primitive inhabitants. It isclear then that during the Reindeer period the horse wasfound in considerable numbers in south-western France. ^ Lartet and Christy, Reliquiae Aiiititaiiicae, p. 172; cf. Muuro, oj). cit.,p. 116. - Lartet and Christy, op. cit., p. 181.•* Lartet, op. cit., p. 94. 86 THE HORSES OF PREHISTORIC [CH. But the Dordogne caves have furnished us with anotherclass of evidence of the highest importance in the shape ofa large series of representations of animals engraved on frag-ments of bone, ivory, or stone, or occasionally carved out ofbone or reindeer horn^ It is needless to observe that theanimals pourtrayed are those with which the artists were them-selves familiar. Simil
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