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THE ANTIQUITY OF MAN 
he discovered — the man who lived when the mammoth 
and woolly rhinoceros had a home in Belgium. When 
an exact drawing of the Engis skull is placed within the 
standard frame, the one we have employed in the case of 
Neolithic skulls, we see that in shape and size it is merely 
a variant of the river-bed type. It is longer, higher, 
and rather narrower ; it is very similar to the skull of 
the Neolithic man found at Sennen, in Cornwall. The 
skull is that of a man of middle age. The maximum 
length is 198 mm. ; the width, 140 mm., is 70*7 
per cent, of the length. The height of the vault above 
the ear-holes is 121 mm. ; the calculated brain capacity 
Fig. 21. — Views of the Engis skull from the side and from above. 
I 500 c.c. — a little above the modern average. There is 
not a single feature that marks this skull off from 
men of the Neolithic or modern times. No doubt, if 
the face and the jaws had been found we should recognise 
certain points of difference in them, but, unfortunately, 
these parts were not recovered. If we believe that the 
human frame must change during the lapse of a long 
period, then we shall be inclined to regard the evidence 
of the Engis cave with scepticism. If, however, we 
regard Dr Schmerli ng as a competent and truthful 
observer — and I think the time has come when belated 
justice must be done to him — then we must conclude 
that a human type can be reproduced for many genera- 
tions and over a very long period of time, and still 
remain almost unchanged. The man who lived in Bel- 
