904 MAN 



extensive visual perctption and appreciation. I-urtherniore, it signifies the 

 increment possessed by Neanderthal man tor the visual guidance ol highly 

 organized manual skill (Fig. 400). 



COMPARISON OF TWO OTHER ENDOCR.ANIAL CASTS WITH THE 

 LA CHAPELLE AUX SAINTS SPECIMEN 



Two other endocranial easts of the Neanderthal race should be placed 

 in comparison with the La Chapelle aux Saints specimen. Both of these 

 skulls are smaller and attributed to Neanderthal women. 



The La Quina Skull. The La Quina skull was discovered by Dr. 

 Henri iXhirtui m i()ii, together with other |:)ortions ol the skeleton. The 

 brain capacity, estimated by Professor Anthony to be 1350 c.c., is 250 c.c. less 

 than that of the Neanderthal man of La Chapelle, but corresponds with 

 other females of the race found at Gibraltar and Croatia. The cast is remark- 

 able in two respects: It duplicates all of the cranial characters of the La 

 Chapelle s|)ecmien with a faithfulness that compels conviction. It is, in 

 addition, a notable example of endocranial casting. The Neanderthal 

 peculiarities of cerebral configuration are most |)ronounced, as already 

 observed, in the frontal region (Figs. 389 to 393). Here the same sharp ele- 

 vation (at about ()0° with the base) occurs abo\t' the supraorbital torus. It 

 extends but a short distance and c|uickl\ falls away mto the llattened arc 

 which adapts itself to tlu' low receding forehead. Nor is this arc consistently 

 maintained. As in the La Chapelle east, it sinks into an actual concavity 

 near the j;lane of the coronal constriction. The entire brain seems Hat par- 

 tially in response to the disposition of the Irontal arc, but also because of 

 pronounced broadening m the paru'lal region. 



The frontal lobe near its pole shows the superior and middle Irontal 

 convolutions but bcNond this area there are no indications ot sulci or gyres. 

 The inlenor Irontal convolution is prominent in l)olh hemispheres. In it may 



