THE IRON, THE BRONZE^ AND THE STONE AGES. 



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Measurements of Face. 



A well -filled -out skull, on tlie whole, though the parietal 

 tubera are still distinguishable, as is often the case in female skulls; 

 the forehead is vertical, but the parietal region slopes with consider- 

 able obliquity in its posterior two-fifths ; the plane of the superior 

 occipital squama lies distinctly behind that of the posterior part 

 of the parietals, so that a very marked undulation is formed at the 

 line of meeting of the two bones. The relation of inferiority held 

 by the height to the breadth of the skull is probably merely a 

 sexual character ; the vertical contour being eminently that of the 

 dolichocephalic type of skulls, whilst the smallness of the mastoid, 

 the slightness of the supra-orbital ridges, and the feebleness of the 

 lower jaw, show, what the characters of the limb and trunk bones 

 also show, viz., that' the owner of this skeleton was a woman. 



This woman had lost the second molar of the left half of 

 her upper jaw some time before the evolution of the wisdom 

 teeth of the lower jaw of the same side, and probably not very 

 long after the evolution of the second molar of the same side of the 

 lower jaw. The first molar of the right half of the upper jaw had 

 been similarly lost early in life ; the second molar next to it was 

 largely excavated, and the wisdom tooth, on to which that carious 

 cavity opened, had an abscess at its fangs. The lower jaw teeth, 

 though all sound except the left second premolar, are much 

 crowded together. It is not clear that the wisdom tooth of the 

 left upper jaw was ever developed. Six abnormalities is a large 

 proportion in the dental series of a woman who was not much 

 beyond thirty years of age. 



The slightness and straightness of the collar bones, the hori- 

 zontal direction of the neck of the femur, the characters of the 

 OS innominatum and other bones, show the skeleton to have 



