THE NEANDERTHAL FEMORA 



(Originals) 



Schwalbc 



Hrdlieka 



Femur: Length, bicondylar 



Stature, estimated^ 



Humero-fcmoral index 



Head: Diam. max 



Diam. infero-superior 



Diam. transverse (antero-post.) 



Neck: Diam. max 



Diam. min 



At middle: Diam. antero-post.. . . 



Diam. transverse 



Mean diam 



Index of strength 



/Mean diam. X ioo\ 



43 9' 



\ Femoral-length / 



Circumference 



Below trochanter minor:'' 



Diam. antero-post 



Diam. transverse 



Subtrochanteric flattening: 



Diam. min 



Diam. max 



Index 



Lower end: Epicondylar breadth 



max 



Condyles: Diam. max. lateral: 



Mesial condyle 



Lateral condyle 



Diam. antero-post.: 



Mesial condyle 



Lateral condyle 



When bones lie on the condyles, 



the lateral rises above the 



mesial by 



In same natural position head of 



left bone is higher from the 



horizontal than the right by . . 

 Inclination of the diaphysis to the 



vertical 



Angle of neck 



5-3 



(5-05) 



3 1 

 2.953 



9 4 



30 

 3 4 



8.5 



3 35 

 3 05 



84° 

 119° 



/. 



cm. 

 44 05 



5 4 

 5-2 



31 

 3 053 



9.6 



2.95 

 3-55 



8.5 



3 20 

 3 05 



85° 

 118° 



cm. 



43-7 

 164.0 

 yi.4 

 5-35 

 5-35 

 dam- 

 aged 

 405 



cm. 

 43 9 



7 mm. 



400 American 



Whites (misc.) 



Hrdlicka 



8 mm. 



3 mm. 



r. 



cm. 

 44 79 



72.7 



I. 



cm. 

 44.81 



64.4 



2.69 

 3 25 

 82.8 



72 



2.90 



64 5 



2.71 

 3.26 

 83 i 



' In the postliutnous work of -Schwalbe on the Pithecanthropus femur, Z. Morph. u. .\nthrop. 

 Vol. 21, p. 354. 1921. the mean length of the Neanderthal femur is given as 43.8 cm., which cor- 

 responds exactly to the mean length of the writer's measurements. 



' Using the quotient 26.S. obtained by Hrdliika on bodies of 100 male Americans. 



'The figures are printed reversed, namely 3.05 and 2. OS, which is clearly an error; the lefi 

 shaft is the stronger (see circumference), and the casts of the bones confirm the matter. 



* These arc not the same measurements as those that follow; the writer takes, as the most useful, 

 the minimum and maximum dimensions of the flattening. . , 



' Here is a rather material difference between the measurements of Schwalbe and the writer s 

 which must be due to some difference in method. The writer's measurements represent the maximum 

 obtainable epicondylar breadth taken by the stouter branches of an accurate compass glissiere. 



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