DESCRIPTION OF FIGURES OF SKULLS. 



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HESLERTON WOLD. 



[v. p. 142.] 



SKULL OF A MAN IN THE EAELIEE POETION OF THE MIDDLE PEEIOD 

 OF LIFE. 



I. Measurements of Calvaria. 



Extreme length 

 Fronto-inial length 

 Extreme breadth 

 Vertical height 

 Absolute height . 

 Basi -cranial axis . 

 Circumference 



7" 



7" 



5-6" 



56" 



5-4" 



4" 



20-3" 



Frontal arc 

 Parietal arc 

 Occipital arc . 

 Minimum frontal width . 

 Maximum frontal width . 

 Maximum occipital width, ap 

 proximatively 



II. Measurements of Face. 



1 nasal-alveolar ' line 

 ' interzygoniatic ' line 

 line 

 line 



Length of face : 



Breadth of face 



' Basio-subnasal 



' Basio-alveolar ' 



Height of orbit 



Width of orbit 



Length of nose 



Width of nose 



Lower jaw, interangular diameter 



Lower jaw, depth at symphysis 



2-6' 



5-2" 



3-7" 



38" 



1-1" 



1-7" 



2" 



1-1" 



36" 



1-45" 



Lower jaw, width of ramus . . . . . 1*3" 



III. Indices. 



Length-breadth index : ' cephalic index ' . 

 Antero-posterior index .... 



Basilar angle ..... 



Facial angle to nasal spine 

 Facial angle to alveolar border 



80 

 54 



25 



70 

 66 



46" 

 47" 

 5-1" 



4" 

 4-7" 



4" 



This skull presents many of the peculiarities distinctive of a male 

 brachy-cephalic skull of pre-historic times, and in a form which is by 

 no means extinct at the present day. It has lost considerable 

 portions of the left parietal and temporal bones, as also of the left 

 half of the occipital, by water- wear; the rest of the skull however, 

 and the jaws, are in good preservation. The forehead has the 

 obliquity so usually found in the skulls of strong male subjects ; 

 the parieto-occipital region, on the other hand, shows the abrupt dip 

 characteristic of the brachy-cephalic type. The external occipital 



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