Ill ANCIENT DANISH SKULLS 207 



And, on the other hand, it is even more closely 

 affined to the skulls of certain ancient people who 

 inhabited Denmark during the " stone period," and 

 were probably either contemporaneous with, or 

 later than, the makers of the " refuse heaps," or 

 " Kjokkenm'dddings " of that country. 



The correspondence between the longitudinal 

 contour of the Neanderthal skull and that of some 

 of those skulls from the tumuli at Borreby, very 

 accurate drawings of which have been made by 

 Mr. Busk, is very close. The occiput is quite as 

 retreating, the supraciliary ridges are nearly as 

 prominent, and the skull is as low. Furthermore, 

 the Borreby skull resembles the Neanderthal form 

 more closely than any of the Australian skulls do, 

 by the much more rapid retrocession of the fore- 

 head. On the other hand, the Borreby skulls are 

 all somewhat broader, in proportion to their length, 

 than the Neanderthal skull, while some attain 

 that proportion of breadth to length (80 : 100) 

 which constitutes brachycephaly. 1 



In conclusion, I may say, that the fossil remains 

 of Man hitherto discovered do not seem to me to 



P For a further discussion of the characters of the Neanderthal 

 skull, see "Natural History Review," 1864. I there say (p. 

 443) : "That the Neanderthal skull exhibits the lowest type of 

 human cranium at present known, so far as it presents certain 

 pithecoid characters in a more exaggerated form than any 

 other: but that, inasmuch as a complete series of gradations 

 can be found, among recent human skulls, between it and the 

 best developed forms, there is no ground for separating its pos- 



