Saddle in various other Indo-European languages, including the Latin "sella". In addition to the above basic components, some saddles also include: There is evidence, though disputed, that humans first began riding the horse not long after domestication, possibly as early as 4000 BC. The earliest known saddle-like equipment were fringed cloths or pads used by Assyrian cavalry around 700 BC. These were held on with a girth or surcingle that included breast straps and cruppers. From the earliest depictions, saddles became status symbols. To show off an individual's wealth and status, embellishments were added to saddles, including elaborate sewing and leather
Girth (graph theory) coloring must be small and which therefore requires at least colors in any coloring. The odd girth and even girth of a graph are the lengths of a shortest odd cycle and shortest even cycle respectively. The circumference of a graph is the length of the "longest" cycle, rather than the shortest. Thought of as the least length of a non-trivial cycle, the girth admits natural generalisations as the 1-systole or higher systoles in systolic geometry. Girth is the dual concept to edge connectivity, in the sense that the girth of a planar graph is the edge connectivity of its