292 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 83 



MEASUREMENTS OF THE LA QUINA SKELETAL REMAINS 

 (By Henri Martin) 



skeleton h 5 the skull p„, 



Length max 20.3 



Breadth max i3-8 



Cranial index 65.0 



(La Quina child, H 18 77-o) 



Length from ophryon ad max 18.3 



Cranial index with ophryon length 75-4 



Basion-bregma height, near 12.2 



Mean height index (Hrdlicka) 7/.(5 



Height-breadth index 8S.4 



Height from glabella-inion line to vertex 7-95 



Calottal index ( Schwalbe) 39-09 



Circumference (horiz.) 51 -5 



Arch middle of meatus over bregma 30-5 



Diam. frontal min. (Broca) lo.o 



Diam. frontal max 1 1 -6 



Nasion-bregma diam 12.0 



Bregma-lambda diam ii-2 



Lambda-inion diam 6.2 



Ext. biorbital breadth 10.2 



Orbits : 



Height 3-65 



Breadth • • • • ? 



Nose : ? 



Upper alveolar arch, ext. breadth max 7-75 



Cranial capacity (obtained directly from displacement by intracranial 



cast) 1,350 c. c. 



THE LOWER JAW OF SKELETON H 5, LA QUINA ' 



cm. 



Mean height of body 3-4 



Mean thickness of body 1.5 



Index 44-'^5 



Symphyseal angle, about 109° 



Ramus : 



Height near 7.5 



Breadth min 4.7 



External breadth between points on external alveolar border outside of 



M3 8.5^ 



Mandibular angle, approx 110° 



Condyle (right) : 



Transverse diam 2.5 



Antero-post. diam 0.9 



Breadth of space between M3 and the vertical plane of the anterior 



borders of the rami 1.2 



Breadth of space between M3, to the lower ends of the anterior borders 



of the rami 0.5 



' In part the measurements have been taken differently from those of other workers, and are 

 not directly comparable except with those taken in the satne manner. 



