Men of the old stone age, their environment, life and art (1916)
Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 · New York : C. Scribner's sons · leaf 262
dthe variation limits of the anthropoid apes. Before looking at Neanderthal man as a whole, we may turnour attention especially to a number of these peculiar features ofthe race. All the earliest observers were impressed by the heavy,overhanging brows and retreating forehead. In recent manthere is… … nences turns upward bcncalh the outer line of the eyebrows. Inthe Neanderthals, on the contrary, these prominences beneaththe eyebrows surround the whole upper edge of the eye socket,extending outward around the externalborders of the forehead, so that theyma>- be called tori siipraorbilalcs;…
Prehistoric peoples · Stone age · Art, Primitive
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