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Additional teeth. — In addition to the teeth in the lower jaw of 

 the child's skeleton, there are also present the two right upper incisors 

 of the same subject. These incisors resemble much the correspond- 

 ing teeth of Krapina. They are distinctly shovel-shaped, and present 

 lingually from one (median I) to three (lateral I) marked small 

 cusps. 



THE PARIETAL BONE 



This piece is not described by Virchow. It is a large oblique frag- 

 ment of the left parietal with large portions missing antero-superiorly 

 and postero-inferiorly. It apparently proceeds from a juvenile, though 

 hardly a child's skull, is of moderate thickness (maximum, 8.5 mm.) 

 and shows one important feature, which is a marked and nearly 

 central parietal eminence, not dull, posterior and low down as in the 

 Neanderthalers, but practically like that in modern man. 



THE 1925 SKULL 



This original, which the writer has not yet seen, has been described 

 thoroughly by Professor Weidenreich. It is a specimen of uncommon 

 importance, for it shows, as does Spy No. 2, transition from the 

 Neanderthal to the modern form of skull. The specimen presents 

 some of the distinctly Neanderthaloid characteristics, such as a 

 complete and still rather heavy torus, and the somewhat protruding 

 broad occiput, flattened from above and hollowed out below, typical 

 of the Neanderthal crania. But with these inferior features there is 

 a higher and well arched forehead, a higher vault, a better developed 

 mastoid, a less heavy zygoma, and a parietal with a central rather than 

 posterior, though still low situated, eminence. 



Weidenreich's conclusions as to the skull, to the restoration of 

 which he gave the most meticulous care, are as follows : ^ 



The skull, which came from the lower travertin of Fischer's Quarry 

 at Ehringsdorf, belonged to a young individual (between 18 and 30 

 years of age), possibly a female [?]. Unmistakable dents on the 

 frontal made partly by sharp, partly by dull stone implements, render 

 it probable that the individual had been killed. The violence resulted 

 also in breaks of the cranial bones and separation at sutures. The fact 

 that the basal parts of the skull are missing, having apparently been 

 broken away, lead to the conclusion that the skull was thus broken 



^ Weidenreich, Franz, Die Morphologie des Schadels ; in Der Schadelfund von 

 Weimar-Ehringsdorf, p. 135, Jena, 1928. 



