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therefore, the interesting and rather anomalous combination of a 

 greater strength of both the body and the ramus on the right side, 

 with a lesser development in height of l)oth body and the ramus, 

 and also a lesser breadth of the ramus. 



THE SKULL OF THE CHILD 



This skull is of somewhat higher grade than that of the adult. The 

 vault is higher, and while still showing traces of the Neanderthal type, 

 especially in the lower frontal and in the occipital region, it neverthe- 

 less could be much more nearly duplicated today. But there are 

 features of the skull which attach it distinctly to the Neanderthalers. 

 Although the specimen is that of a child not over eight years of age, 

 the supraorbital arch is already plainly indicated and complete, and 

 there is a shallow broad depression above it. The forehead, however, 

 is quite as high and well arched as in mesocephalic skulls of children 

 of similar age of today. It shows also not the single " cocoanut " 

 bulge as in the negro, but a broad expanse which is like that in the 

 crania of present white children. 



The sutures are distinctly more simi)le than in a modern child. 

 The parietals are formed much like those in modern niescjcephalic 

 skulls of children ; but there is already perceptible the location of the 

 parietal bosses which, as in the adult skull of La Quina, are almost 

 directly above the mastoid region of the temporal. There is a distinct 

 vertex ; the lambdoid region is not more flattened than in children's 

 skulls of similar shape today ; neither is the occipital more pro- 

 truding or more " undercut," or more flattened beneath the protuber- 

 ance — in fact there is no flattening. The outline of the norma superior 

 is an oblong ovoid, not yet as " baggy " behind as in the adult 

 Neanderthalers. The temporal squamae are low — distinctly lower 

 than in modern skulls of children, and the mastoids are much less 

 developed, with the digastric groove l>ruader and reaching higher on 

 the left side, where a considerable part of it is (juite external. The 

 meatus is of about the same size as it is today but its vertical axis is 

 not quite the same as in modern children's skulls. 



The face. — The orbits are not of excessive size ; their borders are 

 still fairly sharp ; their shape, as far as it can be told, except where 

 aft'ected by the rather peculiar border of the malars, shows little that 

 is striking. The interorbital septum is not very stout. The nose 

 is fairly protruding, concave, rather long, the nasal aperture broad. 

 The suborbital (canine) fossae are full. There is but moderate facial 

 or alveolar prognathism. The bones of the nose and maxilla appear 



