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reconstruct the Piltdown skull I also believed that the 
supra-orbital region of the forehead must be made wide, 
but this belief had to be abandoned in order that the 
parts belonging to the middle line of the vault might 
fall into their proper places. 
We have been discussing the characters of the forehead, 
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BRONZE AGE 
EOANTHROPUS 
Fig. 180. — Frontal view of the left half of the original model of Eoanthropus 
contrasted with the opposite half of a Bronze-age English skull. 
which, in a strict anatomical sense, does not form part of 
the face but of the cranium. For the anatomist the 
face commences at the root of the nose and ends at 
the chin, thus including those parts which form the eye- 
sockets, the nasal cavity, and the mouth. When the 
anatomist measures the length of the face his upper limit 
is the nasion — the point of junction between nasal bones 
and the frontal ; his lower, the under margin of the chin. 
