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roots, especially, are longer ; and there are some details of form, 

 particularly in the crowns of the incisors and molars, which are related 

 to anthropoid features. Notwithstanding these facts, the Krapina 

 teeth, and particularly the canines, are on the whole fairly near those 

 of present man. 



DETAILED OBSERVATIONS ON THE CRANIAL REMAINS 



The majority of the fragments are of the skulls of children and 

 adolescents. 



SKULL A, CHILD 



This is one of the most valuable pieces. It comprises the larger 

 part of the frontal with portions of both parietals. The bones are 

 somewhat thicker than in a modern skull of similar age, the parietals 

 reaching 4.6 mm. along the broken border. The parts preserved show 

 that the skull was originally broad. Also the sutures are distinctly 

 better serrated than they are in the various Neanderthal crania, and 

 there is a persistence of the metopic suture. There is a distinct though 

 mild indication of a complete supraorbital arch, with a slight de- 

 pression above it. The forehead is, however, fairly high, well arched, 

 but slightly sloping, and shows faintly lateral eminences, as in white 

 children of today. There is a shallow depression posterior and paral- 

 lel to the coronal suture — as is not infrequent in modern white skulls. 

 The postorbital narrowing is but little marked in the specimen. 



SKULL B, CHILD 



The material comprises most of the right with an upper portion 

 of the left parietal and a good part of the occipital bone. This piece 

 also fails to give the impression of a narrowness of the skull ; more- 

 over, the formation of the parietal bone both superiorly and laterally 

 approaches those in modern skulls. The occipital squama, however, 

 shows the characteristic form of the Neanderthalers, being relatively 

 broad from side to side and showing mild superior flattening with 

 a fairly marked subinionic depression ; the protrusion is, however, 

 but moderate. There is an indication of occipital torus. The sutures, 

 especially the lainbdoid, are relatively simple. The bones are appreci- 

 ably thicker than in the average modern skull of about this age ; the 

 thickness of the parietal, about the middle of the squama, is about 

 5 mm. The impressions of both the cerebrum and the cerebellum are 

 strongly marked on the occipital bone ; and the latter shows also 

 some peculiarities of vascular impressions. 



