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erous graves and mounds opened in the Miami Valle}- have 

 had onh' a single tooth, and in most instances were smaller 

 than these specimens. 



The skeleton itself was very well preserved. It is of a 

 male, variously estimated to have been from five feet six 

 inches to five feet ten inches in height, and probably about 

 forty years of age. The toe, ankle and wrist bones are 

 entirely wanting, while only a few of the finger bones 

 remain. Otherwise the skeleton is complete. 



By comparison with the table of measurements included 

 in Dr. F. W. Langdon's paper upon "The Madisonville Pre- 

 historic Cemetery: Anthropological Notes," * it will be seen 

 that in length, width of frontals, and width of orbit the 

 skull in question corresponds almost exactly with Dr. Lang- 

 don's maximum measurements, and agrees only in height of 

 orbit with his mean measurements. The capacity, breadth, 

 height, and zygomatic diameter range about midway between 

 the maximum and mean measurements, while the indices of 

 breadth and height are somewhat below the mean. The in- 

 dex of breadth being between .740 and .800, namely, .783, 

 places this skull among the Orthocephalic types, while those 

 from the Madisonville Cemetery were mostl}' of the Brachy- 

 cephalic type. The temporal process of the malar bone is 

 well developed. 



The orbits are no exception to the Madisonville speci- 

 mens in their marked angularity or extreme proportionate 

 width. 



On the lower surface ot the nasal tuberosity is a well- 

 marked example of a persistent frontal suture. 



The synostoses of the sutures are marked. The following 

 being present to a greater or less extent, to-wit : sagittal, 

 lambdoidal, coronal, spheno-frontal, occipito-mastoid, inter- 

 nasal, and malo-maxillary. Of these, the spheno-frontal and 

 malo-maxillar>- are complete. In each instance the lines of 

 union are almost obliterated. 



■■■ See Journal of the Cincinnati Society of Natural History, Vol. 

 IV, p. 237. 



