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with proportions in any way suggestive of brachycephaly. It is con- 
venient to submit the notes made on all the specimens, although those 
relating to the broader crania are chiefly in question here. 
The crania thus set aside for special notice are nineteen in number. 
I hasten to add that this does not contradict the estimate of the per- 
centage (8°55) of brachycephali recorded in my earlier report. The 
method adopted here has been to pick out all crania with a breadth- 
index of 80 or more, as well as those having a maximum transverse 
diameter of 143 or more. Some of the latter are not brachycephalic, 
and others are so fragmentary that they do not provide data both of 
length and breadth. These fragmentary crania could not be included in 
the statistics of 1903, and indeed their exact cephalic indices are matters 
of surmise. The nineteen specimens thus set aside include all the 
brachycephalic crania at my disposal. But out of the nineteen only six 
demand special consideration here. It is a matter for regret that in 
Crete the sites providing the most reliable evidence of the circumstances 
of interments are exposed to a climate so different from that of Egypt. 
Considering the destructiveness of alternate phases of damp and dry 
atmospheres, it is a matter for satisfaction that any crania have been 
preserved in such a locality as Roussolakkos. 
The six crania in question are numbered on my system as follows: 
2D, 19D, 25D, 48D, 105D, 112D. Of these, Nos. 19D and 25D 
must be considered apart, for they are assigned to the Mycenzan age 
or later. The rest are ‘ Minoan’ or earlier. The following Table III. 
gives their chief dimensions :— 
Tasxe III. 
Skull L weasd Breadth |Length| Breadth 
No. Locality | Antiquity | Sex Tridex Sens ca ae Remarks (1903) 
2D | Palaikastro} Minoan |6(?)| 81-5 178 145 ‘armenoid ’ 
19D Zakro Mycenean| ¢ 81-7 175 143 ‘ curvo-occipital ’ 
type (1911) * 
25D ? late | 3 81-2 186 151 ‘curvo-occipital’ 
Mycenzan | type (1911) 
48D | Palaikastro | Minoan é 83-7 178 149 distorted post- 
humously 
105D | Patema ey, 9(2)| 83-2 167 2139 flattened occiput 
112D “a cf 2 83-6 | 2165 2138 very fragmentary 
* Cf. Toldt, Mitt. der anth. Gesellschaft in Wien, Band 39-20, 1909-10. 
The specimens 2D, 19D, 25D, and 105D alone afford reliable 
information. I have already noticed No. 2D in sufficient detail. A 
sketch (made in 1903) of this specimen is reproduced herewith (fig. 1), 
together with a tracing of the vertex view (fig. 2). No. 105D is of 
similar antiquity to No. 2D, and, like that specimen, has a flattened 
occiput. 
Inasmuch as both specimens are short rather than broad, the ‘appli- 
cation of the term armenoid is further justified. The corresponding 
heads would have provided cephalic indices of about 83°5 (2D) and 
85°6 (105D) respectively. 
The two crania of post-Minoan antiquity resemble each other in 
presenting a curved occipital surface, not a flat one. Otherwise they 
