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ently interred in the places where they were found. At 
Piltdown we are concerned, as at Heidelberg and at 
Trinil, with fragmentary remains which had been naturally 
entombed in the bed of an ancient stream. Only parts 
of the skull were found at Piltdown, and, as at Trinil 
in Java, the fragments were scattered some yards apart. 
The individual may have been drowned and dismembered 
in the stream, or the skull may have been exposed on 
dry ground and subsequently swept, with other animal 
remains, into the stream in a time of flood. 
Fig. 98. — Outline of a modern skull to show the number and position of the 
cranial fragments recovered at Piltdown. The black areas represent missing 
parts. 
A reference to fig. 98 will show how much of the human 
skull was recovered. The greater part of the left half 
of the brain case was found — only the middle part of the 
forehead and a part of the posterior or occipital bone 
were missing. The part of the occipital bone which was 
missing on the left side is present on the right, and it 
is thus possible, for the right and left sides of the skull 
are approximately symmetrical, to reconstruct the width 
and form of the hinder part of the head. Only one 
