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formed part of a relatively small skull — somewhat larger 
than the skull represented by the Bury St Edmunds 
fragment. The frontal bone is not thick, only 6' ^ mm., 
and the supra-orbital ridges are not pronounced. From 
other features we infer the Denise skull was that of a 
young woman. Other bones of the human skeleton 
have also been found in the same volcanic deposit, but, 
unfortunately, to meet a demand on the part of visitors 
to Le Puy, many spurious specimens were offered for 
Fig. 71. — The Denise frontal bone 
sale, thus throwing doubt on those which are undoubtedly 
genuine. 
The final discovery I am to cite as evidence that the 
inhabitants of Europe in pre-Mousterian times were 
people, not of the Neanderthal, but of the modern type, 
is that made in 1863 by Signor Cocchi, Curator of the 
Museum of Geology in Florence.^ In making the 
railway southwards from Arezzo, in the upper waters of 
the Arno, a cutting or trench over 50 feet deep had to 
be dug. During the excavation the Olmo skull was 
discovered. It lay at a depth of almost 50 feet (15 m.) 
1 " L'Uomo fossile nell' Italio Centrale," Mem. dell. Soc. Hal. de Sc. Nat. 
Milan, 1867, vol. ii. No. 7. Abstract in Bullet. Soc. d'Anthrop., 1868, 
ser. 2, vol. ii. p. 40. 
