=i Bene Se a 
a — 
THE MOST ANCIENT REMAINS OF MAN 
The various 
determinations 
show that: 
1. The skull, 
taken as female, 
was in size above 
rather than below 
the present aver- 
age of female 
crania. 
2. The skull 
cavity, and hence 
the size of the 
brain, were about 
the average of the 
ordinary white fe- 
males of today. 
3. The vault of 
the skull was not 
low as in all the 
other known early 
forms of man. 
In addition it 
is certain that 
the forehead 
was well arched 
and filled out; 
the parietal, 
temporal, and 
occipital re- 
gions were fash- 
ioned _ practi- 
cally as they 
are in modern 
skulls; the 
supraorbital 
ridges were 
very moderate 
and did _ not 
form a con- 
Fic. 25. Two reconstructions of the Piltdown skull. 
Upper, by Sir Arthur Keith; lower, by John I. Hunter. 
After Elliot Smith 
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