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the curve, consequently 7 millims. (0-276 inch) less than that of the cranium with 

 which we are particularly comparing it. 



Of the occipital the superior angle only is preserved. In the cast which we 

 have before us the angle of the lambdoidal suture appears to be occupied by a 

 small Wormian bone. If this exists in the original, it constitutes a further point 

 of resemblance to the crania from Cro-Magnon, of which two out of three have 

 these supernumerary bones behind. We have elsewhere expressed our opinion on 

 the signification of these anomalies* ; we revert to it here merely to insist upon 

 their relative frequency in the Cave-people of the V6zere, whose cranial synostosis 

 usually follows Gratiolet's law, of which our law of inverse anomalies is, in truth, 

 only a corollary. 



The sutures of the cranium of the crushed Man of Laugerie appear to be open, 

 and seem to us tolerably simple. Comparison of them with those in the skulls 

 from the Shelter of Cro-Magnon leads us to believe that he was not adult ; we 

 know, in fact, that in the adult "No. 3" the obliteration of the sutures was already 

 far advanced, and that "No. 4," in which the "wisdom-tooth" had not yet emerged, 

 already presented points of effacement of the coronal and sagittal sutures. Never- 

 theless the teeth of the latter individual were considerably worn ; and we shall see 



Fig. 89. 



Cranium from Laugerie Basse, " No. 4." Profile, one fourth natural size. (Copied, by permission of the 

 publishers, MM. Bailliere etfik,from the 'Crania Ethnica,' par MM.de Quatrefages et Hamy.) 



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that the Man of Laugerie Basse is also remarkable for his greatly impaired 

 dentition. Beneath a face deformed by vertical crushing (fig. 89), and from 

 which no anatomical description can be drawn, an incomplete dental arc appears, 



* " Kecherches sur lea fontanelles anomales du crane humain," Journal de 1'Anatomie et de la Physiologic 

 de M. Ch. Eobin, Nov. 1870-71, pp. 599, 600. Cf. ' Crania Ethnica,' p. 47. 



