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THE ENGIS SKULL. 



No perfect skull referable to the Palaeolithic period has 



. loo. indeed yet 



been found in 

 Britain. The 

 earliest re- 

 mains of man 

 found on the 

 Continent be- 

 long to three 

 well-marked 

 types, which 

 MM. cle Qua- 

 trefages and 

 Hamy have 

 proposed to 

 call the Cann- 

 statt type, the 

 Crornagnon 

 type, and the 

 Furfooz type. 

 The first was 

 in their opi- 

 nion the oldest. It 

 is named from a 

 skull dug up, as long 

 ago as 1700, by Duke 

 Eberhard of Wiir- 

 temberg, at Cann- 

 statt, near Stuttgart, 

 but not described 

 until the year 1835. 

 The skulls of this 

 type are narrow and 

 low, with very large 



FIG. 191. 



