SKELETAL REMAINS 37 



The Burlington County skull (no. 19513, Peabody Museum) is 

 that of a female, fully adult but not of advanced age. This skull 

 is symmetrical and not deformed or diseased. (Plate in.) The bones 

 are thin, but of considerable hardness. A slight warping causes a 

 partial opening of the right coronal and temporo-sphenoidal sutures. 

 The bones apparently retain some animal matter. Their surface has 

 suffered a considerable scaling off, but as yet the diploe is not visible. 

 The facial parts are much damaged, the superior maxilla being 

 almost entirely absent. The mastoids are broken, and the bone above 

 them, particularly on the left side, shows numerous perforations; 

 there is, however, no indication that these latter are the result of 

 disease. The lower part of the occiput is damaged, and the sphenoid 

 body is broken across in front of the basi-sphenoid articulation, but 

 these injuries have not affected the form of the skull. There is no 

 unnatural depression of the region about the foramen magnum. 

 The right squama shows a small perforation, probably a recent 

 injury; the bone exposed is scaly almost throughout. There are no 

 scratches now visible on the surface of the skull, but such may have 

 existed and disappeared with the outermost layer of the bones. 

 There are no discolorations with the exception of a peculiar narrow, 

 regular band, lighter than the neighboring bone, that obliquely 

 encircles the whole cranium. It seems that a narrow firm band, or 

 some contrivance provided with such a band, was applied to the head 

 or skull and left its impression thereon. There is no metallic dis 

 coloration. 



The skull has very marked peculiarities of form, visible at a glance. 

 It is unusually low throughout its whole extent; the outlines of its 

 planes are rounded, not angular, and the portion of the specimen 

 behind a vertical plane passing through the auditory meati is quite 

 markedly larger than the portion anterior to the plane. 



Enough of the face is left to show that it was very narrow, and 

 the malars, both preserved, are even less prominent than those which 

 we find in an average white female skull. The orbits are megaseme, 

 their borders quite sharp, their angles rounded; depth 4 cm. The 

 nasal bridge, well preserved, is of fair height, slightly concave in its 

 upper half, and not very broad. Nasion depression moderate. Gla- 

 bella large, of medium convexity. There are no supraorbital ridges 

 proper, but an elevation appears on each side of and adjoining the 

 glabella. The interorbital septum measures 2.4 cm. (24.6 per cent 

 of the line between the orbital ends of the malo-frontal sutures). 



The forehead is very low, though not sloping. Diameter: Frontal 

 minimum 9.3, frontal maximum 11.6 ; nasion-bregma arc 11.6 cm. 

 (33.2 per cent of the total arc from nasion to opisthion). 



The parietals show considerable quite uniform convexity from 

 above downward and slightly less so from before backward. The 



