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THE ANTIQUITY OF MAN 
found is best seen in a hinder view of the skull such as 
is shown in fig. 102. To the lower part of the occipital 
bone the neck is fixed ; part of the region for the fixation 
of the neck is represented in the fragment found (fig. 
100). At the lower end of the fragment is seen the 
hinder margin of the foramen magnum, by which the 
spinal cord makes its exit from the brain cavity to enter 
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Fig. ioi. — The fragment of the right parietal bone of the Piltdown skull super- 
imposed on the corresponding points of the bone of the left side, to show the 
extent missing. 
the spinal column. The tabular part of the occipital, 
which rises up from the neck to form the projecting 
hinder part of the head, is also fragmentarily represented. 
By great good fortune, Dr Smith Woodward recovered a 
most essential fragment of the right half — the fragment 
which gives us an indication of the width of the occipital 
bone, up almost to its articulation or point of contact 
with the right parietal bone (see figs. 100 and 102, O'). 
On the occipital bone the ridge which marks the middle 
