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Ceph. ind. (approx.),but the skull 

 is broader as restored than it 

 was in nature . . • 78 



Tnterangular lower jaw . . 3.8 

 Ant. post, index 1 . . 90:195 

 Basilar angle (approx.) 2 . .10 



This, though a very large calvaria, must nevertheless be a 

 woman's, not only for the intrinsic reasons of the verticality of its 

 forehead, the comparative verticality of its parietooccipital region, 

 the general smoothness and roundness of all its outlines, and the 

 small size of its supra-orbital and mastoid ridges, but also for the 

 extrinsic reason that from the cist and its neighbourhood evidence 

 of four other adult bodies is before us, one of these being a woman's 

 skeleton nearly entire, the other three being undoubtedly male 

 skulls, accompanied, however, by a second set of adult female bones, 

 which can only be referred to this skull. 



The first thing to be remarked, perhaps, is the enormous differ- 

 ence of size of the two female skulls, and the consequent unsafeness 

 of saying that men and women are or are not of much the same size 

 in savage races. There is some indication of a post-coronal furrow 

 in this skull, to which some internal thickening corresponds, as is 

 usual. This skull would be spoken of as belonging to the Sion 

 types, just as skull (c) would be referred to the Hohberg type of 

 His and Rutimeyer. 



The lower jaw, which with much probability can be referred to 

 this skull, is feeble, rising up from the level of the mental foramen 

 forwards, which foramen, however, is further forward, being in the 

 plane of the first premolar, than in some other lower jaws of this 

 series. The teeth are much and horizontally worn ; the wisdom 

 teeth were never evolved, in correspondence with which fact the 

 smallness and absence of wear of the wisdom teeth, in an upper 

 jaw probably belonging to this skull, are to be noted. The ramus 

 forms an oblique angle with the body of the bone. 



Swell i. (b). — Skull of a man past the middle period of life. The 

 cranial bones are thick, and the pits for the Pacchionian bodies well 

 developed. To it probably belongs an old upper jaw. The lower 



1 By ' anteroposterior index ' is meant the relation held to the extreme length by 

 that part of it which lies anteriorly to a line drawn as a tangent to the anterior 

 border of the auditory foramen, and cutting the line of extreme length at right 

 angles. It is easily taken by fitting an indicator to M. Broca's ' cadre a maxima.' 

 It shows the degree of frontal development, and, per contra, of occipital dolicho- 

 cephaly. 



2 Taken with M. Broca's Goniometre occipital. See ' Rev. d' Anthropologic,' ii. 2, 

 p. 202, 1873. 



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