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depression of the vault is even more marked when the 
Combe Capelle skull is set side by side with the one 
Fig. 45.— Skulls of the modern type (Combe Capelle) and of the Neanderthal 
type (La Chapelle) contrasted on their lateral aspects. 
from Gibraltar. The first rises above the upper limit in 
the conventional linear frame ; the second falls far short 
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Fig. 46.— a skull of the modern type (Combe Capelle) contrasted with the 
Neanderthal type (Gibraltar) as seen in full face. 
(fig. 46). The Neanderthal skull gives us the impres- 
sion of being compressed from above downwards into 
