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highest and most fully developed type of human 

 skulls. On the one side it approximates to the 

 flattened Australian skulls, from which other 

 Australian forms gradually lead to skulls which 

 rather resemble the type afforded by the Engis 

 skull. On the other side, it is still more closely 

 allied with the skulls of certain ancient races 

 which were either contemporaries or successors of 

 those which dwelt in Denmark during the Stone 

 Age, people whose kitchen middens have been dis- 

 covered in that country.* 



Huxley justly observes that some of the skulls 

 drawn by Busk, and taken from the tumuli of 

 Borrely, resemble the Neanderthal skull, especially 

 in the abruptly retreating forehead. Some other 

 European skulls may, within certain limits, be 

 compared with the Neanderthal skull, as, for instance, 

 those found at Briix, Staengenaes, Olmo, Louth, 

 Clichy, Bougon, Cro-Magnon, Grenelle, Furfooz, 

 Engisheim, Cannstadt, and Toul. These all present 

 interesting peculiarities of structure — strongly de- 

 veloped supra-orbital arches, a retreating forehead, 

 a flattened crown, etc., although none of them are so 

 remarkable in these particulars as the Neanderthal 

 skull. It has not, however, yet been proved that 

 this skull represents a definite racial type, and it 

 seems more probable that it was simply an indi- 

 vidual form. 



The skulls of the Australian aborigines are, as 

 Spengel justlv observes, distinguished from the 

 Neanderthal skull, and from others of like character, 

 * Zeugnisse, etc., 157. 



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