54 GEOLOGY AND HISTORY 



character often observed in rude peoples of modern 

 times. The skull proper, or brain-case, is very long 

 more so than in ordinary modern skulls and this 

 length is accompanied with a great breadth ; so that 

 the brain was of greater size than in average modern 

 men, and the frontal region was largely and well 



OUTLINE OF THE SKULL OF THE ' OLD MAN OF CRO-MAGNON ' 



(after Christy and Lartet) 



developed. The face, however, presented very pecu- 

 liar characters. It was extremely broad, with project- 

 ing cheek-bones and heavy jaw, in this resembling 

 the coarse types of the American face, and the 

 eye-orbits were square and elongated laterally in 

 a manner peculiar to the skulls of this age. The 

 nose was large and prominent, and the jaws projected 

 somewhat forward. This man, therefore, had, as to 



