424 ANIMAL REMAINS FOUND AT CISSBURY. 



and its shaft, between the two epiphyses of the radius and its shaft, 

 between those of the fibula and its shaft, and between the cristae 

 ilii and the body of the bone are visible. The vertebrae are com- 

 pleted, and, what is somewhat surprising, the five bones of the 

 sternum are all but completely anchylosed. There can, however, 

 be no doubt as to the age of the woman to whom this skeleton 

 belonged, inasmuch as the first vertebra of the sacrum is still 

 unanchylosed, and the wisdom-teeth, though present in both jaws, 

 are very little, whilst the other teeth are very much, worn. As re- 

 gards the limbs, the scapulae, the pelvis, and the clavicles of this 

 skeleton, what Dr. Kuhff has said (' Revue d' Anthropologic,' iv. 3, 

 J ^75i P« 435)5 N1Z " ^ na ^ 'P ms l' on se rapproche des origines de 

 l'homme, plus Ton voit s'effacer les caracteres differentiels sexuels 

 dans le squelette,' is the very reverse of the actual state of the case. 

 As regards the cranial capacity it is otherwise, and the skull of this 

 woman from the skeleton shaft at Cissbury, with a cubic capacity 

 of 105 inches (= 1732*7 cub. cent. = 6i«5 oz. av. brain weight), 

 exceeds the immense majority of male skulls cubed and recorded. 

 Out of a large series from very various times and peoples cubed by 

 myself, three only have exceeded this amount. One of these was a 

 Roman of the Romano-British period in Britain, with a cubic 

 capacity of 108 inches ; a second was a skull from a British tumulus 

 at Crawley, of probably the time between the evacuation of Britain 

 by the Romans and its entire subjugation by the Saxons, with a 

 capacity of io6« 75 cubic inches ; the third is a modern European 

 head, with nothing to note in its history, but with a capacity of 

 105*5 cubic inches. 



I have so very lately, 'Journal Anthrop. Inst.' vol. v. p. 120, April, 

 1875 (Article xviii), and elsewhere ('Address on Anthropology/ 

 British Association, Bristol, 1875), gone over the various rationales 

 which have been offered to account for these, at first sight, some- 

 what startling results, that it may be superfluous to repeat here 

 what I have already said locis citalis. 



Looked at in the norma lateralis, as given in fig. 1, PI. xix. 1 

 vol. v. of the ' Journal ' of the Institute, the skull is seen to have 

 the highest point of its vertical arc just at the coronal suture ; the 

 slope of the forehead is a little more pronounced than is usual in 

 female skulls, but, on the other hand, the parieto-occipital region 



1 This plate forms one of the illustrations appended to Colonel Lane Fox's Report. 



