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The various determinations show that : 



1. The skull, taken as female, was in size above rather than below 

 the present average of female crania ; 



2. The skull cavity and hence the size of the brain were about the 

 average of the ordinary white females of today ; 



3. The vault of the skull was not low as in all the other known 

 early forms of man. 



In addition it is certain that the forehead of this skull was well 

 arched and filled out ; the parietal, temporal, and occipital regions 

 were fashioned practically as they are in modern skulls (Keith, p. 

 556) ; the supraorbital ridges were very moderate and did not form a 

 connected arch ; there were no occipital or other crests ; the glenoid 

 fossa and the mastoids were well developed. 



In general this skull, though it may show some secondary inferi- 

 orities, if it were not for the exceedingly primitive lower jaw and 

 canine tooth found near it, would inevitably have to be classed among 

 those of modern man. 



The nasal bones. — These bones, together with a portion of a 

 turbinal, were found in 191 3 by Dr. Woodward, as mentioned above.^ 

 They are extraordinarily thick, corresponding in this respect to the 

 bones of the skull. They are separate (no ossification of suture), 

 and almost perfectly preserved ; the left nasal being complete, the 

 right but slightly defective. Their measurements are thus given by 

 Dr. Woodward : ° 



m m ■ 



Width of naturally apposed nasals at the upper end 13 



Width of naturally apposed nasals at the lower end (about) 15 



Length of the median suture 14 



Length of the nasals, max 18 



Length of the upper border of the left nasal 7 



Length of the upper border of the right nasal 10 



Length of the lower border of the left nasal 10 



Length of the lower border of the right nasal (about) 11 



Comparisons prove, according to Dr. Woodward, that " these nasal 

 bones resemble those of the existing Melanesian and African races, 

 rather than those of the Eurasian type " (p. Sy). Nevertheless similar 

 nasals, except as to the thickness, may be found also in the yellow- 

 brown people and even in whites (Hrdlicka). The turbinated "is 

 unusually thick" (Smith Woodward). There is every indication 

 that the nasals as well as the turbinated belong to the skull and were 



^Original report in Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, Vol. 70, p. 85, 1914. 

 ' Ibid., p. 87. 



