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ligence, and capable of improvement. We fiod among them certain signs 

 of a powerful cerebral organization. The skulls are large in diameter, 

 curve, and capacity, and surpass the mean of those of existing races. 

 They are very elongated in form, such as are called dolichoc6phales, 

 (which means long headed,) but this shape of the head is not due, as with 

 the Australian negroes, to narrowness of the skull ; on the contrary, the 



Fig. 27. 



Skull of the woman of Cromagnon in profile ; the aperture in the frontal bone is apparent. 



transversal dimensions are well developed ; it is the increase of the 

 anteroposterior diameter which gives the elongated form ; the alveolar 

 arch of the old man is oblique, but the upper part of the face is vertical, 

 and the facial angle very obtuse. The forehead is wide, not receding. 



Fig. 28. 



Skull of the woman of Cromagnon ; front view. 



and describes a beautiful curve. The amplitude of the frontal compart- 

 ment denotes a great development of the anterior cerebral lobes, which 

 are the seat of the most noble faculties of the mind. 



