496 THE ANTIQUITY OF MAN 
In this chapter we finish our survey of the structural 
features of Eoanthropus. Our inquiry has been pro- 
longed and tedious, for we have had to give an account, 
not only of the features of this strange and ancient type 
of man, but to invent and to describe the methods which 
have to be applied if we are to place the reconstruction of 
skulls on a sound and scientific basis. So far as the face 
is concerned we can say with certainty that the forehead 
of Eoanthropus was well formed. It was high, prominent, 
and of a width equal to that of a modern human skull of 
average dimensions. The nasal bones were shaped exactly 
as in negroid races, and we infer that the nose itself must 
have been not unlike the broad, flat organ seen in certain 
primitive living races. The dimensions of the face — its 
length and width — did not difl^er from the corresponding 
facial measurements of other primitive forms of men. 
Although the front teeth — the incisors and canines — 
exceeded in size those of any known form of man, and 
although the palate must have been of very great length, 
yet the degree of prognathism was not beyond the limits 
known to occur in living races. The forward extension 
of the frontal region masked the great size of the jaws. 
But if this was the effect of the frontal projection, the 
receding simian formation of the chin must have given 
the lower part of the face a conformation not unlike that 
seen in anthropoid apes. 
