LECTURE XII. 



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Between the supraciliary arches and the nasal bones there is 

 a depression large enough to receive the index finger of an adult. 

 The forehead is usually flat and retreating^ though not so much 

 as in the Neander skull. The mean proportion of length to width 

 in twenty skulls is, according to Busk's table, which he kindly 

 sent me, as 100 : 78. The vestiges of the facial muscles are 

 strongly marked, the alveolar margins prominent, the teeth used 

 up obliquely. The skulls resemble the Lapp skulls by their rotun- 

 dity and smallness, but are distinguished by the depth of the 

 nasal sutui^e and the oblique position of the anterior dental 

 margins. They resemble, at all events, no other European race 

 than that high Northern people, or perhaps the Fins, whose 

 customs are indicated by the builders of the kitchenmiddens. 



A comparison of these skulls of the stone period with the Lapp 

 skull on the one hand, and the Romanic skull on the other, 

 yields the subjoined results : 



Fig. 103. Skull of a Lapp, top view, after Busk. 



On comparing the top of this Lapp skull with that of a stone- 

 period skull of Borreby (fig. 101), and the Romanic skull (fig. 

 127) a series is presented in which the Lapp occupies the middle. 

 In all these three skulls the zygomatic arches are, in this posi- 

 tion, scarcely visible ; the forehead behind the eyes is thus pro- 



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