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bones are not prominent, so that an even smooth outline of the 

 face results. In the Dordogne population, on the other hand, the 

 faces in many cases are almost as broad as in the normal Alpine 

 round-headed type. In other words, they are strongly dishar- 



Cro-Magnon Tvi-e. Dordogne. Ceplaalic Index, 78. 



monic. To make this clear, compare the two heads shown in our 

 illustrations.* Notice at once how the Cro-Magnon head is de- 

 veloped posteriorly as compared with the Alpine type. This is 

 particularly noticeable in our second portrait on the next page. 

 Observe also how in the front view the cranium narrows at the 

 top like a sugar loaf, at the very place where the Alpine type is 

 most broad. Yet despite this long head, the face is proportioned 

 much more like the broad-visaged Alpine type than after the 

 model of the young woman's face on page 441. Hers is a truly 

 normal and harmonic dolichocephalic type. 



In our Dordogne peasant there are many other minor features 

 which need not concern us here. The skull is very low- vaulted; 

 the brow-ridges are prominent ; the nose is well formed, and less 

 broad at the nostrils than in the Alpine type. These, coupled 

 with the prominent cheek bones and the powerful masseter 

 muscles, give a peculiarly rugged cast to the countenance. It is 

 not, however, repellent; but more often open and kindly in appear- 

 ance. The men are in no wise peculiar in stature. They are of 

 medium height, rather stocky than otherwise. In this latter re- 

 spect they show the same susceptibility to environment as all 

 their neighbors: they are tall in fertile places and stunted in the 



* For the Cro-Magnon portraits on this and the following pages I am indebted to Dr. 

 Collignon himself. These are the first, I think, ever published, either here or in Europe. 



