BRITISH EAST AFRICA 
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A 
The cranium is fairly complete, although the zygomatic 
arches have been broken. On the right side the malar bone is 
absent. In texture the bone is brittle, but not excessively 
so. 
The form of the skull is very distinct. It is long, 
narrow, and low, thus representing the so-called * cylindroid * 
type. 
The individual was an aged female. The sex is indicated 
by the small size of the specimen, the lack of prominent ridges 
or processes, and the general smoothness of the surface. In 
particular, the inion cannot be defined with accuracy. 
Advanced age is indicated by the loss of several teeth, and 
by the wide-spread synostosis of the bones forming the cranial 
vault. The positions of the bregma and lambda are therefore 
uncertain. 
No evidence of artificial deformation is provided. There 
are no marks of wounds, nor of ulcerative disease. The bones 
are all stained with vegetable juices, as indeed is to be 
expected in the circumstances (cf. introductory notes). 
The more important features will now be enumerated in 
detail. 
The long ellipsoidal form of the cranium is most distinct 
in the norma verticalis (fig. 1). It follows that the parietal 
eminences are not specially distinguishable. The alveolar 
border of the maxilla is visible in this aspect, but the zygomatic 
arches were probably just concealed. The synostosis of the 
coronal and sagittal sutures is practically complete. 
In norma lateralis (fig. 2), the deficiency in vertical height 
is a marked character. The brow ridges are not distinct, nor 
is there any special prominence at the glabella. The frontal 
bone rises steeply from the nasion, and the sagittal arc runs 
into a plateau at the vertex. From this, the descent commences 
near the obelion, and the squama occipitis bulges strongly. 
The conceptacula cerebelli are also full and rounded. No 
prominence corresponding to the inion could be detected. 
The temporal ridges are visible, but not marked. The 
squamosal bone provides a flattened outline above. The 
