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The Madisonville Pre-Historic Cemetery. 
On the other hand, none of the crania show any traces of the antero- 
- posterior flattening of the frontal bone, which is said to have been a 
_ eustom among the Natchez, Chickasaws, Choctaws, and perhaps some 
other tribes of this region. The absence of this flattening, so far as it 
goes, tends to exclude the probability of this people being identical 
with either of the tribes mentioned. 
Prognathism is a generally well-marked, though not constant feature 
of these crania. 
No. 49, in the above table (fig. 1), is remarkable for its great length, 
both absolute and as compared with its breadth, which latter dimension, 
however, can not be obtained accurately, as a portion only of the 
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Fig. 1. Cranium remarkable for its peculiar proportions and prominent supra-ciliary 
ridges (No. 49 on table). 
calvarium is preserved. In its peculiar proportions, low, narrow fore- 
head and prominent supra-ciliary ridges, it bears a somewhat striking 
resemblance to the famous Neanderthal skull, its length, however, bes 
ing greater, and the forehead narrower. 
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