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women's skulls, holds usually a less favourable relation to the length 

 and breadth than it does in males. The only three instances in 

 which I have in this series of dolicho-eephalic skulls found the 

 latitudinal to be less than the altitudinal index, or, in Professor 

 Cleland's [1. c. p. 148) and Professor Busk's (Journ. Ethn. Soc. 

 1871, p. 4G7) language, found the skull to be ' tapeino-cephalic,' 

 were skulls of women. One of these was the woman (see Journ. 

 Anth. Inst. vi. p. 36) found in one of the flint mines under the line 

 of the fosse round the British fort at Cissbury, which were shown 

 by Colonel Lane Fox (Journ. Anth. Inst. vol. v) to be of earlier 

 date than that fort, itself of the stone age. The second of these was 

 a woman's skull from the famous Rodmarton barrow, from the 

 collection of the late Rev. Canon Lysons (see Proc. Soc. Antiq. 1863 ; 

 Thurnam, Crania Britannica, PI. 59) ; and the third of these was 

 the skull of the single undisturbed skeleton found in the long 

 barrow ' Upper Swell, ccxxxi,' described by me at p. 529 supra. 

 It is true that in many of the long-barrow skulls the loss of the 

 anterior portion of the occipital bone renders it impossible to take 

 the 'absolute ' as opposed to the ' upright' height^, except approxi- 

 matively ; still I am well assured that the great majority of the long- 

 barrow crania resemble in the favourable relation of their height to 

 their length rather the South Sea Melanesian ' hypsi-stenocephali ' 

 of Dr. Barnard Davis (' Natuurkundige Yerhandelingen,' Haarlem 

 1866, and Thesaurus Craniorum, p. 309) than the low-lying 

 Tasmanian and Bushman skulls described by Professor Busk 

 (Journal Ethn. Soc. Lond. Jan. 1871, p. 476). The conceptacula 

 cerehelli lie horizontally in male and female skulls of the stone age 

 both alike, differing herein markedly from the other type in which 

 they are usually either globular and convex downwards or slope 

 more or less obliquely upwards. In the norma occipitalis we often 

 find given us the most characteristic peculiarities of the stone-period 



beide Gesclilechtei- gemeinsam, wogegen die Maximalhohe des Weiberschadels sich 

 nur wenig uber das Mittel des Mannerscbadels (133 Mm.) erbebt, dessen Maximum 

 (147 Mm.) jenes des weiblicben Gescbleehtes weit iibertrifft. Die Hohe des Weiber 

 schadels bat im Vergleicbe zu der des mannlicben nocb das eigenthumliche vor den 

 anderen Hauptdurcbmessern voraus, dass sie von der selben sicb \'iel weiter (6 1000, 

 § 939) entfernt, daber auch der Weiberschadel im Verhiiltnisse zu seiner Lange 

 (1000: 729) viel niedriger als der mannlicbe (738) ist.' Dr. Thurnam (Further 

 Eesearches, p. 25) found as many as 8 out of 48 male skulls, and as many as 7 out 

 of 19 female skulls, of the long-barrow period to be ' tapeino-cephalic.' For ' the 

 latest accession of height in the male skull being wanting in the female ' see Cleland, 

 I.e. 148, 164; for the reverse from the Caverne de 1' Homme Mort, see Rev. d'Anthr. 

 ii. p. 29. 



^ See p. 562 supra. 



