484 THE ANTIQUITY OF MAN 
ably short and stout ; they did not form projecting 
lateral knobs, such as are seen in Neanderthal skulls 
and in primitive specimens of modern man. In the 
young orang and in the skulls of children we find angular 
processes somewhat resembling the Piltdown type. Pilt- 
down man was evidently marked by peculiar features quite 
different from any known form of fossil man or ape. 
Neanderthal man is characterised by the great width 
of the supra-orbital bar ; from one angular process to the 
other it measures from 120 to 128 mm. We expect to 
find a great supra-orbital width in ancient and primitive 
types of man, and hence it was natural that we should 
expect such a feature in Eoanthropus. In modelling his 
first reconstruction, Dr Smith Woodward was influenced 
by this belief. In fig. 180 is represented the left half of 
the original model of Eoanthropus. The angular process 
projects 10 mm. beyond the 50-mm. vertical, giving a 
total supra-orbital width of 120 mm. The temporal 
lines, as represented in the model, have quite a different 
direction from that seen on any other human skull. In 
fig. 1 80 is also shown the right half of the forehead of 
those round-headed men who first landed in England 
during the Bronze age. They had remarkably prominent 
supra-orbital ridges and angular processes — offering a 
striking contrast in this respect to Eoanthropus. The 
temporal line, after leaving the angular process, draws 
inwards on the forehead until it touches the 50-mm. 
limit, and then begins to pass outwards as it ascends, in 
the manner seen in all known types of men. If, however, 
we were to tilt the vault of the Bronze skull downwards 
and inwards for a little way, we should produce exactly 
the same disposition of the temporal lines and of the 
angular process as are seen in the original model of 
Eoanthropus. It is highly probable, then, that the peculiar 
frontal features seen in the original model of Eoanthropus 
are reconstructional, for when we poise the frontal frag- 
ment in Eoanthropus as in all known human skulls, then, 
as is shown in figs. 178 and 181, the features normal to 
all types of men are reproduced. In my first attempts to 
