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persion in Central Europe at the end of the Stone Age. More re- 

 cently, Dr. Thomas H. Bryce l in a suggestive paper, has sought to 

 establish that there is a specific type of cranial form associated with 

 the "beaker" class of sepulchral urn, and says that for working pur- 

 poses it will be desirable in the future to arrange Bronze Age crania 

 in terms of the fictilia. This is the seventh skull associated with a 

 "beaker" urn which I have described, and, with five others tabulated 

 and described by Dr. Bryce, make a practically uniform series, the 

 type agreeing exactly. If this holds good for the "beaker" type of 

 urn, is there evidence of a specific type of skull associated with the 

 " food-vessel " type of urn ? Unfortunately, it is very rare to find a 

 " food-vessel " urn associated with an unburnt burial, these being 

 usually found in cists where incineration has been practised. Hence 

 it is difficult to obtain evidence on this point, and it would be unsafe 

 to draw any conclusions from the single example now described. All 

 I can say is, that on comparing these two skulls, certain slight differ- 

 ences are to be noted. The skull associated with the " food-vessel " 

 urn is less brachycephalous ; the breadth-height index is less low ; 

 the parieto-occipital flattening is less marked ; there is an increase in 

 the distance between the "perpendicular" and the posterior curve of 

 the cranium, the occipital pole being distinctly more developed. 



1 Proc. Soc. of Antiquaries of Scot., 1904-05, p. 425. 



