LECTURE X. 303 



to the highest and best developed of human crania; on the 

 one hand, it is closely approached by the flattened Australian 

 skulls of which I have spoken, from which other Australian 

 forms lead as gradually to skulls having very much the type of 

 the Engis skull; and, on the other hand, it is even more 

 closely affixed to the skulls of a certain ancient people 

 who inhabited Denmark during the stone period, and were 

 probably either contemporaneous with or later than the 

 makers of the ' refuse heaps', ' Kjokkenmoddings' of that 

 country. 



" The correspondence between the longitudinal contour of 

 the Neanderthal skull, and that of some of the skulls from the 

 tumuli at Borreby, very accurate drawings of which have been 

 made by Mr. Busk, is very close. The occiput is quite as 

 retreating, the supraciliary ridges are nearly as prominent, and 

 the skull is as low. Furthermore, the Borreby skull resembles 

 the Neanderthal form more closely than any of the Australian 

 Fig. 98. Skull from a Tumulus at Borreby : Danish Stone Period. 



skulls do, by the much more rapid retrocession of the fore- 

 head. On the other hand, the Borreby skulls are all some- 

 what broader, in proportion to their length, than the Neander- 



