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skulls are either too old or too young to have these bones assigned 

 to them ; the stature of this man would, therefore, have been 

 5 feet 6 inches. 



Glabello-inial length 

 Ext. length 

 Ext. breadth 

 Vert, height 

 Least frontal 

 Frontal arc 



7-9 



8-2 



5-3 



5-7 

 4.1 



5-2 



Parietal 



5-1 



Occipital c.2 



Ceph. index .... 64 

 Ant. post, index . . 115:210 

 Circumference (approx.) . .22.3 

 Basilar angle (approx.) . .32 



Typically dolichocephalic skull— Orthognathous.— Large supra- 

 ciliary ridges, from which forehead slopes only slightly. The 

 highest part of vertical contour is at coronal, when the head is 

 held with the vertical line joining coronal suture and auditory 

 meatus. The parietals slope very gradually to the occipital squama, 

 which possesses a considerable length, looking vertically. In the 

 norma lateralis nearly the whole of the parieto-occipital suture of 

 that side comes into view. In the vertical view this skull is 

 typically elongato-oval ; there is some slight constriction imme- 

 diately behind the region of the coronal suture ; the broadest part 

 of the skull is below and a little in front of the parietal tubera. 

 The skull walls are compressed from side to side below the level 

 of those eminences, and taper rapidly to the occipital squama. 

 The sagittal suture is partially obliterated. Viewed from behind, 

 the roof of the skull falls rapidly from the middle line to the 

 region of the parietal tubera, and its walls converge again in the 

 region of the squamosal. The orbital and supraciliary ridges 

 occupy a plane anterior to that occupied by the commencement 

 of the brain- case. The mastoids and temporal ridges are well 

 developed. 



The palate is narrow, deep, elliptical; the teeth much worn, in 

 a slanting, not a horizontal direction. To this skull may, with 

 much probability, be assigned a lower jaw, with teeth similarly 

 worn. Its angle is well defined and flanged outwards, and the 

 body of the bone is emarginated anteriorly to it. The mental 

 prominence is well marked, and, though narrow, is divided into 

 two processes, one on either side. The alveolar part of the front 

 of the jaw is deep. The mental foramen is further back than is 

 usual in European skulls, being in the plane of the second pre- 

 molar. 



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