THE NEANDERTHAL MAN. 



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of his cranium. And what a story do the remains of the 

 Neanderthal man tell ! One ulna received an injury 

 which was healed during the life time, but must have con- 

 siderably hampered the use of his arm. The right parie- 



RIGHT ULNA. 

 Normal. 



LEFT ULNA. 

 Pathological. 1 



tal bone of the skull shows the mark of a cicatrized injury 

 which appears to have been made with a pointed weapon, 

 an arrow or a lance. A furrow in the right superciliary 

 ridge is another irregularity which seems to have been 



1 The left ulna shows that the individual to which this bone belonged received 

 a severe injury during lifetime the cure of which was left solely to nature. The 

 right ulna is normal and its surfaces of the processus coronoides are well preserved, 

 but on the left ulna a fracture is visible. Here the incisura radialis is filled 

 up with newly formed bone substance and thus brought this spot, destined to re- 

 ceive the capitu/um radii, into direct contact with the humerus, the bone of the 

 upper arm. The result must have been that the arm could not be fully extended. 



Above the left ulna we reproduce the end view of the pathological processus 

 coronoides. The cicatrized injury appears on the left side. 



