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suture^ — that point being known as the " stephanion " — • 
they lie 10 mm, outside the 50-mm. limit. The " inter- 
stephanic " width of the frontal bone of the test skull is 
thus 1 20 mm. — a very common measurement in modern 
skulls. It must also be noted that if the temporal 
muscles are large, their origins will be placed higher on 
the vault of the skull, and the temporal lines, which 
circumscribe their origins, will approach nearer to the 
middle line of the vault than when the temporal muscles 
are small. An English skull showing a high position of 
the temporal lines is represented in fig. 179. In skulls 
Fk;. 177. — Frontal view of a reconstructed skull, compared with a cast of the 
original — that of an Egyptian woman. 
of fossil men we expect to find large temporal muscles, 
and the temporal lines high up on the vault of the skull 
so that the interstephanic diameter becomes reduced. In 
the reconstruction of the Piltdown skull, shown in fig. 
178, the frontal bone is poised so as to represent the 
smallest possible frontal width ; it has been pushed 
inwards to a degree which somewhat interferes with the 
symmetry of other parts of the reconstruction. It will 
be seen, however, that even when the frontal region 
is unduly contracted, the temporal lines cross the 
coronal suture 10 mm. outside the 50-mm. line. The 
interstephanic diameter in the Piltdown skull is not less 
than 120 mm., and the temporal lines do not ascend 
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