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SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 83 



inioii to the highest point of the vault. This feature is shown especially 

 strikingly by the " calotte index," or percental relation of the two 



MAIN MEASUREMENTS OF THE NEANDERTHAL SKULL 

 (Taken on the Original) 



Dimensions 



Neanderthal 



Schwalbe 



Hrdlicka 



Corresponding 



dimensions in 



a modern male 



white skull 



Glabella-inion length 



Greatest length (glabella ad max.) . . . 

 "True" length (discounting the excess 



of the supraorbital torus) to inion. . 



"True" length, max 



Greatest breadth 



Cranial index (with Schwalbe's length) 

 Cranial index (with length max.) . . . . 

 Cranial index (with "true" length to 



inion (Schwalbe)) 



Cranial index (with "true" max. 



length (Hrdlicka)) 



Brain cavity: Length max 



Breadth max 



Index 



Height (from glabella-inion line to 



vertex) 



Calotte index (H X 100) 



Gl. = In. L. 

 Thickness of skull: At glabella 



of parietals (squammae) 



of frontal, at eminences 



Nasion-bregma diam 



Bregma-lambda diam 



Lambda-inion 



Lambda-mid-point of occipital crest^ 



Diam. frontal min 



Diam. frontal max 



Index (D. fr. min. X 100) 



D. fr. max. 



cm. 

 19.9 



79 



8.05 

 40 



18.8 

 14 7 



73 I 



78.2 

 near 172 

 near 13.5 

 near yS .5 



near 30 mm. 



6 to 8 mm. 



8 . 5 mm. 



cm. 

 18.7 



14 mm. 



4 to 6 mm. 



5 to 7 mm. 



II .0 

 115 



6.4 



9.8 

 12.4 

 79 o 



' These dimensions, it would seem, must have been taken on a cast; they do not harmonize 

 with the thickness of the skull. 



2 This diameter is larger than in modern skulls because of the carrying forward of the nasion 

 by the excessive supraorbital protrusion (torus). 



' The crest turns upward in its mid-portion; if it formed a regular arc the diameter from lambda 

 to the mid-point (inion) would be 5.6 cm. 



* Large because of the great thickness of bone here. 



dimensions. In modern crania the distance from the g-i line to the 

 highest point of the skull measures invariably materially more, and 

 the index is invariably much higher, than in the Neanderthal skull. 



