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THE ANTIQUITY OF MAN 
construction. Professor Sergi was impressed by both the 
discovery and the discoverer. He went with Ragazzoni 
to the pit, made a fresh section of the strata, and was 
convinced that all was as Ragazzoni claimed, namely, that 
he had discovered human remains in undisturbed beds 
of a Pliocene age. The race was of the modern human 
type. Some time before he died. Professor Ragazzoni 
placed the human remains discovered at Castenedolo in 
Professor Sergi's custody, and they are now preserved 
in his department in the University of Rome. 
Fig. 88. 
-Woman's skull found at Castenedolo, viewed from the side and 
from above (after Sergi). 
In fig. 88, I reproduce two drawings of the woman's 
skull copied from Professor Sergi's excellent illustrations, 
but fitted within the conventional standard lines used in 
former illustrations. The length is 189 mm. ; the width, 
135 mm., being 71*4 per cent, of the length. The 
dimensions are above those of the average modern 
European woman. The vault of the skull rises 1 15 mm. 
above the ear-holes, the pitch of the roof being thus an 
ordinary one. The brain capacity must have been about 
1340 c.c. — the average for modern European women. 
The bones of the vault are not thick. The forehead is 
