No. I.--A Young Woman

The bones of this skeleton, are fragile, broken and considerably

decayed.

The skull is in fair condition, though the lower jaw is broken in

half.

The skull is round and arched above the breadth index being 77.7, of

brachycephalic or Mongoloid type. _The superciliary_ ridges are not

very prominent, but the frontal, parietal and occipital eminences

are very distinct. _The forehead_ is non receding and the breath

measures 9 c.m. The cheekbones are not unduly prominent, the official

measurement being 119 m.m. The gnathic index is 93, or orthognathous.

The teeth are well preserved and not much worn, the 3d. molars not

having erupted in either jaw. The face is short and broad, the height

being 108 m.m. in and breadth 119 m.m., the orbit is inclined to be

square with rounded angles and the type megaseme, the nasal index is

mesorhine.

A very striking feature of this skull is the well marked central

vertical frontal ridge and some tendency to angularity of the vertex.

In the whole this skull is of a more refined type than the others and

suggestive of some fair intellectual development of the individual.

There are two wormian bones on the left side of the skull, one at the

pterion and one below the asterion each being 9 m.m. long.

The bones generally are fragile and the long bones slender, with no

marked impression for muscular attachment. A curious fact is that the

ends of all the long bones are absent, presumably from decay, and as

these ends are united to the shafts between the age of puberty (14-15)

and adult life it is suggestive that the individual may have been

of about the age of 18 or 20 and this is somewhat confirmed by the

noneruption of the third molars.

With this skeleton are two animal bones. White and very dense in

structure. They are both femura, one probably that of an ungulate; the

other of a carnivore.

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