MAN FROM THE FARTHEST PAST 
This identification removes many difficulties, making 
the material much more intelligible and the deductions 
from it of more value. All the skeletal parts show an 
advanced state of mineralization. In color they range 
from brownish to grayish, skull No. 1 representing the 
Fic. 19. Profiles of the Neanderthal cranium (unbroken line) and of Spy No. 1 
(dotted line) and Spy No. 2 (broken line). Note that although the two Spy 
skeletons are of the same period, the forehead and vault of No. 2 are much higher 
than those of No. 1. After Fraipont and Lohest 
former and No. 2 the latter shading. The teeth, however, 
are white, with yellowish roots, much as in crania from 
late burials. 
The two skulls are plainly normal specimens, free from 
disease or deformation. In age, No. 1 was an adult of 
about thirty-five years, No. 2 had just reached the adult 
stage. As to sex, were it not for the heavy supraorbital 
arch, No. 1 would be identifiable as a female. Such 
identification would conform with the characteristics of 
all the bones that may definitely be attributed to this 
subject, except the skull, and even this is rather feminine 
except in the lower frontal region. 
Morphologically the two skeletons, more particularly 
the two crania, show features of such interest and im- 
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