hrdliCka] skeletal REMAINS OP EARLY MAN 249 



There is a fairly well marked nasion or rather supranasion depres- 

 sion, but the whole region is decidedly female in character. The 

 nasal process is quite well developed and reaches well down below 

 the line connecting the uppermost points of the orbital border on 

 each side. The glabella is slightly convex, not prominent, and there 

 are small, feminine supraorbital ridges extending over the median 

 half of each orbit. There is no approach to a supraorbital arch nor 

 is there any depression above the supraorbital ridges. 



The forehead is only moderately high, but fairly convex, with 

 scarcely a trace of the lateral eminences, and there is no frontal or 

 sagittal crest, only a barely visible median elevation. 



The parietal eminences are large but not specially prominent. The 

 outline of the norma superior was nearly ovoid. The temporal crests 

 were not pronounced; the nearest approach of that on the right to 

 the sagittal suture is 3.6 cm. The supramastoideal crests are well 

 marked, the mastoid itself is slightly above medium feminine; the 

 digastric groove is deep. 



Of the sutures, the frontal and the sagittal are plainly traceable 

 dorsally but seem to be in an advanced state of obliteration ven- 

 trally. Their serration was submedium. 



Internally is seen a moderate metopic crest extending over less 

 than one-half of the frontal squama. Impressions of brain convo- 

 lutions are few and shallow. 



What remains of the base on the right side shows a glenoid fossa 

 of ordinary features and dimensions. 



It will be seen from the above that no part of the specimen pre- 

 sents morphologic peculiarities, primitiveness, or anything that would 

 be incompatible with the skull of an ordinary Indian. Thickness of 

 the bones of the vault such as shown here is common enough in the 

 latter race. 



Measurements : 



Nasion-bregma arc,' about 11.8 cm. 



Right half of transverse arc, about 13.7 cm. 



Antero-posterior arc over the middle of the right parietal, near 11.5 cm. 



Thickness of frontal squama 7 to 8 mm. 



Thickness of the right parietal bone 6 to 9 mm. 



Slcull No. 3. — A large, mascuhne, adult skull, with possibly a slight 

 fronto-occipital deformation. Ably reconstructed from more than 30 

 fragments. 



Surface of bones covered, as in skull No. 2, with a tliin deposit of 

 gra3rish calcareous matter, not enough perceptibly to affect the meas- 

 urements. 



The specimen is quite heavy, but the weight is mainly due to the 

 calcareous coating. The bones are apparently largely devoid of 



1 Eliminating inerastation. 



