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446   SKULLS FROM ANAU.

OTHER SPECIMENS, NOT SHOWN ON PLATES.

No. 7, A.N.K., Terrace I, Skeleton a.

Fragment of skull of child, type of dolichocephalic skull.

No. 8, A.N.K., +37 feet.

Skull of child, fragment. Breadth, 127 mm. It is an ovoides, or ellipsoides

cuneatus.

RESULTS.

From examination of these skulls it is found that—

The characters of the skulls of Anau, both in calvaria and in facial bones, do not show any different structure from the characters which commonly we find in the skulls of the Mediterranean variety with long dolichomesocephalic form.

The cephalic indices, together with the nasal index in the fragment No. 2 (plate 92, figs. 4 and 5), the form of the maxilla and of the nasal bone, show apparently this convergence of characters.

The prophatnia of the same fragment, No. 2, is not absolutely absent in the Mediterranean race.

The pentagonal form of the skull is also common in the Mediterranean race, and is a general character in the skulls of the fetus and children.

(See my memoirs: Le forme del cranio umano nello sviluppo fetale; Rivista di Biologia, Como, 1900. Nuove osservazioni sulle forme del cranio umano; Atti Società romana di antropologia, 1904. Die Variationen des menschlichen Schädels and die Klassification der Rassen; Archiv f. Anthropologie, N. F. III, 1905.)

These skulls differ absolutely from the so-called Mongolian type.

The results shown above give a certainty to my hypothesis of some years ago on the probable penetration into Central Asia of one branch of the Mediterranean variety. (See Gli Arii in Europa e in Asia, Torino, 19o3. )

Table of measurements (in millimeters) of the fragmentary skulls, adult and infant, of North Kurgan, Awns.

+ = feet above, — = feet below datum.

2
Terr.
III.
Adult.

4
+32
to +37.
Inf.

6   7

+ 32 to Terr.

+37.   I.

Inf.   Inf.

8

+37.

+25. Adult.

Length    185

Breadth    141?

Index    76.2

Frontal breadth (min.)    95
Height from auditory fora-

men    107

Nasal height    ... .

Nasal width   

Index    ...

Orbital width    36

Orbital height    3o

Index    83.3
Palato-maxillary breadth.......

Palato-maxillary length    length........

Cranial form    Pen tag.

3

+23. Inf.

5

Inf.

47?

22

46.8

61

55

166

I22

73.4

Ovoid.

188

125

66.4

Ellips.

170-175? I24

72.9-70.8

Ellips.

170

120

70.5

Pentag.

I27

Ellips.

9

+25.

124?

Ellips.