 Colin Renfrew (1999) also remarked, "the significance of the horse ... has been much exaggerated", and Bryant holds, "using such negative evidence, by the same logic used to eliminate India as a candidate, ultimately any potential homeland can be disqualified due to lacking some fundamental Proto-Indo-European item or another".Renfrew's statement refers to his own Anatolian hypothesis, which is criticized by mainstream scholarship on similar grounds.In RV 1.162.18, the sacrificial horse is described as having 34 (2x17) ribs