Drawings and
FIG. 51. STONE AGE HORSE: STEPPE TYPEcarvings by Palaeolithic man taken along with bones and teeth afford ample evidence of the existence in various parts of Europe of a horse with long-pillared molars and a coarse head (Fig. 51), but with fine limbs) i.e. a horse allied to if not identical with the wild 'Steppe' horse (Equus przewalskii) (Fig. 52 and Plate XCIV., Fig. 1), which still survives in Mongolia.

Teeth and limb bones from French and English Pleistocene deposits point to the existence of a fine-headed race from 12 to 13 hands high, with limbs slender as in the desert Arab and molars characterised by short internal pillars. Some of the drawings in the Combarelles cave (Fig. 53) apparently represent this slender-limbed 'plateau' race which I have named Equus agilis.[1]

In the 'Elephant Bed' at Brighton and in the vicinity of the large Palaeolithic settlement at Solutré to the north of Lyons, there is evidence of the existence of a long low 'forest' race, probably characterised by a short broad dished face, long-pillared molars, short broad cannon bones, and wide hoofs.

1 E. agilis includes a northern ('Celtic') and a southern ('Libyan') variety.

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