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stout, indicating a man with a narrow, round chest. The 
ribs were broad and strong. Clearly the Hailing man 
is not of the tall, Cromagnon breed. His low stature 
agrees with that of the Neolithic river-bed people. Yet 
he differs markedly from them in certain features. In 
Neolithic skeletons, the upper extremity of the thigh bone 
usually shows a marked degree of flattening from front 
to back. In the Hailing thigh bone, as is the case in 
many Continental skeletons of a Palaeolithic date, this 
feature is absent.-^ The thigh bone in this respect is also 
like that of modern man. The head of the thigh bone 
of the Hailing man is very massive — 52 mm. in diameter, 
an excessive amount when one considers the shortness 
of the bone. His tibia does not show the compression 
or flattening from side to side which appears in races of 
Neolithic and later times. In this respect also, the tibia 
approaches more nearly to that of modern man. We 
have seen, too, that in the proportion of the limbs the 
Cromagnon type resembled negro races, the tibia being 
very long when contrasted with the femur, and the radius 
long when compared with the humerus. Unfortunately, 
the extremities of nearly all the long bones are deficient 
in the Hailing skeleton, precluding an exact estimate of 
their lengths, but one can be certain that these negroid 
features were not present — at least not in the marked 
neo-roid deo-ree found in the Cromacrnon race of the 
Aurignacian period. 
One very anomalous and puzzling feature was found 
in the vault of the skull (see fig. 31). The coronal 
suture which crosses the vault between the frontal and 
parietal bones bends towards the forehead as it approaches 
the middle line of the vault. So anomalous is the con- 
dition that it seemed most likely to be due to an error 
in reconstruction. A full investigation excluded such 
an explanation. In one of the Neolithic skulls found at 
Coldrum, a large Wormian bone was interpolated in 
the same part of the vault (see fig. 4, p. 10). In 
1 Details of measurements will be found in the Joum. Roy.Aiithrof^. 
I/istit., vol. xliv., July 1914- 
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