Men of the old stone age, their environment, life and art (1915)
Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 41
alic. In the former there is little or no difference MEN OF THE OLD STONE AGE between the length and breadth of the skull; in the latter thereis a notable difference. The expression of this primary distinc-tion between races is called the cephalic index, and it is deter-mined as follows: Breadth of… … cent of the length, as in theexisting Australians, Kaffirs,Zulus, Eskimos, and Fijians.But some of the Palaeolithicraces were mesaticephalic;that is, the breadth was be-tween 75 per cent and 80 percent of the length, as in theexisting Chinese and Polyne-sians. The third or brach-ycephalic type is…
Prehistoric peoples · Stone age · Art, Primitive
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