The Moetal Remains of S^vedenboeg 



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The facial skeleton appears rather small in relation to the brain- 

 case. The nasion-basion line forms with the horizontal line an angle 

 of about 27'', the profile-line again an angle of about 86°, from which 

 it will be seen that the cranium is markedly orthognathic. The mea- 

 surements in the middle plane (compare Table I.) show no noteworthy 

 divergences from the usual condition. The pterion is of normal appear- 

 ance with almost altogether obliterated sutures. 



The temporal plane shows a rather evident fossa alaris (Schwalbe 

 28), bounded by prominences of which, especially on the left side, 

 the superior frontal (corresponding to the 3rd frontal gyrus) is fairly well 



Fig. 12. Geometrical ouLline drawing- of the skull, profile, '.s size. 

 The dotted line sliows the reconstructed profile of the face. 



developed. The squamous suture makes a rather sharp angle in its 

 middle portion. The orifice of the external auditory meatus is round- 

 Even when looking at the cranium from behind (PL II., fig. 2) 

 one observes the slightness of its height. The boundary between the 

 almost vertical side-walls of the ci-anium and the upper parts, which 

 show a tendency to roof-shaped flattening, but no keel nor ridge-for- 

 mation, is marked by the well developed parietal eminences. The con- 

 tour-line of the basis cranii is in the norma occipitalis downwards bow- 

 shaped, with a depression in the middle. The lambdoidal suture is only 

 preserved in its middle portion and shows medium strong teeth but 

 no Wormian bones; the suture becomes more and more indistinct to- 



