Table 13: The cranial capacity of Homo erectus " 



l Uijnu il\ 



Sangiran 



China 



Choukoutien 

 Choukoutien 



Choukoutien 

 Choukoutien 

 Choukoutien 



Lantian 



Tanzania 



Olduvai 



//. erectus occtus VII 



H. erectus erectus (n = 6) 

 sample mean 



H. erectus pekinensis 1 1 

 H. erectus pekinensis III 

 H. erectus pekinensis X 

 H. credits pekinensis XI 

 H. erectus pekinensis XXI 

 H. erectus pekinensis (n = 5) 



sample mean 

 //. erectus subsp. 



H. erectus subsp. 



(Olduvai hominid 9) 



H. erectus of Asia (n =12) 

 Total H. erectus (n = K5) 



(in c.c.) Reference 



850 Tobias 1967a 



775 Weidenreich 1943 



890 After Weidenreich 19 43 



750 vim Koenigswald 1967 



975 Jacob 1966; von 



Koenigswald 1967 

 915 After Sartono 1968 and von 



Koenigswald, personal 



communication 



11)1)0 



929 

 935 



Tobias 19051. 



This study 

 This studv 



" Data li>i // erectus \ 111 arc- not included in the Table (see footnotes pp. N't ami 93). 



and 3 Javanese H. erectus crania, Ashton's total of 14 crania and his mean 

 of 1026 c.c. are obtained. Clearly Ashton has included the 6 Ngandong 

 crania (Ashton 1950, p. 715), although Weidenreich (1943, p. 232) indi- 

 cated that he regarded them as "intermediate between the Pithecan- 

 thropus and Sinanthropus stage, on the one hand, and Neanderthal types 

 on the other" and, again, spoke of them as representing "the next evolu- 

 tionary step in the line leading from Pithecanthropus to modern man." 

 The usual difficulty obtains here that intermediate or transitional forms 

 often cannot be classified into one or another taxon under the Inter- 



>i 90 



