208 HUMAN FOSSILS. in 



affined to the skulls of certain ancient people who 

 inhabited Denmark during the " stone period," and 

 were probably either contemporaneous with, or 

 later than, the makers of the " refuse heaps," or 

 " Kjokkenmoddings " of that country. 



The correspondence between the longitudinal 

 contour of the Neanderthal skull and that of some 

 of those skulls from the tumuli at Borreby, very 

 accurate drawings of which have been made by 

 Mr. Busk, is very close. The occiput is quite as 

 retreating, the supraciliary ridges are nearly as 

 prominent, and the skull is as low. Furthermore, 

 the Borreby skull resembles the Neanderthal form 

 more closely than any of the Australian skulls do, 

 by the much more rapid retrocession of the fore- 

 head. On the other hand, the Borreby skulls are all 

 somewhat broader, in proportion to their length, 

 than the Neanderthal skull, while some attain 

 that proportion of breadth to length (80 : 100) 

 which constitutes brachycephaly. 1 



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[* For a further discussion of the characters of the 

 Neanderthal skull, see " Natural History Review," 18G4. 

 I there say (p. 443) : " That the Neanderthal skull ex- 

 hibits the lowest type of human cranium at present 

 known, so far as it presents certain pithecoid characters 

 in a more exaggerated form than any other: but that, in- 

 asmuch as a complete series of gradations can be found, 

 among recent human skulls, between it and the best de- 

 veloped forms, there is no ground for separating its pos- 

 sessor specifically, still less generically, from Homo 

 sapiens. At present, we have no sufficient warranty for 

 declaring it to be either the type of a distinct race, or a 

 member of any existing one; nor do the anatomical char- 

 acters of the skull justify any conclusion as to the age to 



