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size of the other teeth, the extensive caries, and other points, speak 

 strongly against hoary antiquity. 



The Rhodesian skull is a tantalizing specimen to the student, who is 

 wholly at a loss as to just where it belongs taxonomically or chrono- 

 logically. It is a comet of man's prehistory. 



MEASUREMENTS OF THE RHODESIAN SKULL 

 (Hrdlicka, 1927) 

 J'aitlt: cm. 



I Length max. (g-max.) , with occipital torus 20.6 



1 a Length max. (g-max.) , discounting torus 20.2 



2 Length max. from ophryon,' with torus 19.2 



2a Length max. from ophryon, discounting torus 18.8 



Breadth max 14.5-14.6 



Cranial index (with la length) /J.8 



(with 2a length) 77./ 



Height : 



Basion-bregma 13.O 



r H Xioo \ 



Mean height index -i — f ^-f-v 



Lmean of L la -\- B J 



Height-breadth index 89.7 



Endocranial basion-bregma height 12.0 



Diam. -frontal min 9.9 



Diam.-frontal max 12.3 



fD. fr. min. X ioo\ 



Frontal index i f 80.5 



L D. fr. max. J 



Thickness of right parietal 6-10 mm. 



Glabella to nearest endocranial point 3.4 



Face and Base: 



Nasion-alveolar point height 9.3 



Diam.-bizygomatic max near 14.8 



Facial index, upper, near 6j.o 



Subnasal point-alveolar point height Z-7 



(a) Basion-nasion diam 11. i 



(b) Basion-subnasal point lo.i 



(c) Basion-prealveolar point (most anterior point on 



upper alveolar process) 11.8 



Facial angle 63° 



Alveolar angle 54° 



Orbits: 



Height : 



Right 4.0 



Left 3.9 



Breadth : 



Right 4.6 



Left 4.5 



Index fright 56.95 



\ left 86.7 



Ophryon can be determined but approximately as a point just above what is 

 plainly the forestructure and not yet the forehead. 



