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Men of the old stone age, their environment, life and art (1918)

Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 270

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he Neanderthal skull is found on the horizontal linedirectly through the brain chamber, known as the glahella-inionline, a line drawn from a prominence between the eyebrow ridgesto a point at the back of the skull known as the external occipitalprotuberance, or inion. This is also the longest line… … Fig. ii6. Top view of three skulls—of a chimpanzee (left), of the man of La Chapelle- aux-Saints (centre), and of a modern Frenchman (right)—showing the retreat of the projecting face and prominent eyebrow ridges. After Boule. the skull is at a point considerably above the glahella-inion line.The…

Prehistoric peoples · Paleolithic period · Art, Primitive

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