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seen to be of about the same length as the Galley Hill 
and Clichy specimens (fig. 72). Its length is 202 mm. ; 
its width is more difficult to estimate exactly, owing to 
some degree of distortion by earth -pressure, but it 
cannot have been less than 150 mm. — giving a head index 
of 74. The vault is low, about 116 mm. above the ear- 
passages, and remarkably flat — a feature recalling the Bury 
St. Edmunds fragment. As in that fragment, the frontal 
bone is sharply bent, producing a wide and vertical fore- 
OUMO (vertex) 
Fig. 73. — The Olmo cranium viewed from above, compared wilh a 
similar view of the vault of the Neanderthal calvaria. 
head. The brain capacity is estimated at 1 560-1 600 c.c. 
— a large and capacious skull. The forehead shows a 
smaller development of supra-orbital ridges than in the 
skulls of the more primitive of modern races. The 
width of the forehead, at the level of the upper margin of 
the orbits, is only 106 mm. ; higher up, the minimum 
width is 100 mm. On the other hand, the bones of the 
vault are remarkably thick — 11 mm. There is not a 
sino-le feature in this skull we can call simian. In this it 
agrees with other human skulls of great antiquity. 
We have now completed a tour of Europe in search of 
pre-Mousterian man. The European of the Mousterian 
