History of measurement units of length referred to above and the Mesopotamian cubit were used in the 3rd millennium BC and are the earliest known units used by ancient peoples to measure length. The units of length used in ancient India included the dhanus, or dhanush (bow), the krosa (cry, or cow-call) and the yojana (stage). The common cubit was the length of the forearm from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger. It was divided into the span of the hand or the length between the tip of little finger to the tip of the thumb (one-half cubit), the palm
Yup'ik clothing joint of the index finger curled up with section from tip to first joint along inner edge of thumb; "qerruuner" (in Cup'ig) measurement from fingertip to armpit or chest; "quruner" (in Cup'ig) measurement from fingertip to the armpit or chest; "tallineq" (in Yup'ik) measurement from one's fingertips to his armpit with the arm (and hand) outstretched; "'tallinin" (in Yup'ik) measurement from the extremity of one’s fist to his armpit with the arm outstretched; "taluyaneq" (in Yup'ik) measurement, the distance from the folded elbow of one outstretched arm to the ends of the fingertips of the other outstretched arm; "teklin" (in