388 
THE ANTIQUITY OF MAN 
Eoanthropus, that the eyebrow ridges must have been 
prominent. It will be seen from fig. 142 that I 
originally carried the forehead almost to the 200-mm. 
line, giving the skull a total length of 200 mm. I am 
now convinced of that being too much. In every form 
of reconstruction of the skull of Eoanthropus one feature 
is always in evidence — the height and prominence of the 
upper part of the frontal bone. The curve given by the 
contour of the profile in front of the bregma (figs. 
142, 143) suggests not a low and receding forehead as 
in Neanderthal man, but a high forehead, prominent in 
its upper part, and rather retracted than projecting as it 
PILTDOWN (A) FILTDOWN (b) 
Fig. 143. — Two reconstructions of the Piltdown skull. A, By the Authoi ; 
B, from the model by Dr Smith Woodward. 
merges in the eyebrow region. Hence, in revising my 
attempts to obtain the true form of the head of 
Eoanthropus in the light of my experiment in skull 
reconstruction, I remodelled the eyebrow region, making 
the maximum length of the skull 194 mm. (fig. 143). 
One other point may be mentioned here, raised by the 
mistake I made regarding the aex of the test skull — that 
of an ancient Egyptian woman. In every race of mankind 
there occur men with a rather feminine conformation, and 
women who, in form of face and thickness of neck, are 
rather masculine in character. In every collection of a 
hundred human skulls there are eight or ten of doubtful 
sex. Does the Piltdown specimen belong to this un- 
determinate group ? We cannot tell until we have 
