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ized by an extremely receding forehead, by the great prominence of the 

 supraorbital ridge?, and by a rather slender jaw. The occipital projec- 

 tion for the attachment of the superior mnscles of the neck was large, 

 indicating that these muscles at the back of the neck were strongly devel- 

 oped, a character necessary to meat-eaters before the invention of knives 



Fig. 1G. — Xeanderthal skitJI 



Skull of a Neanderthal man from the cavern of La Chapello-aux-Saints (Correze), France. 



After Bonle. 



and forks. This primitive type of man was shorter than the average 

 European (that is, 5 feet Si/o inches) ; he is estimated of as low stature 

 as 5 feet S^A inches. His lower limbs were especially powerful, but his 

 gait seems not to have been fully erect, for tlie knees are bent slightlv 

 forward. 



