IN MODERN SCIENCE, 



155 



average modern men, and the frontal region 

 was largely and well developed. In this respect 

 this most ancient skull fails utterly to vindicate 

 the expectations of those who would regard 

 prehistoric men as approaching to the apes. 

 It is at the opposite extreme. The face, how- 

 ever, presented very peculiar characters. It 

 was extremely broad, with projecting cheek- 

 bones and heavy jaw, in this resembling the 

 coarse types of the American face, and the 

 eye-orbits were square and elongated laterally. 

 The nose was large and prominent, and the 

 jaws projected somewhat forward. This man, 

 therefore, had, as to his features, some resem- 

 blance to the harsher type of American physi- 

 ognomy, with overhanging brows, small and 

 transverse eyes, high cheek-bones, and coarse 

 mouth. He had not lived to so great an age 

 without some rubs, for his thigh-bone showed a 

 depression which must have resulted from a 

 severe wound — perhaps from the horn of some 

 wild animal or the spear of an enemy. 



The woman presented similar characters of 

 stature and cranial form modified by her sex, 

 and must in form and visage have been a ver- 

 itable squaw, who, if her hair and complexion 

 were suitable, would have passed at once for an 



