It was afterward found that the ancient Peruvians and Mexicans practised this art: several flattened Peruvian skulls are depicted in Morton's "Crania Americana.
Inspection and examination of a large collection of Eskimo craniahas changed and greatly modified some of the previous notions of the conventional Eskimo skull.
Anatomists know, moreover, that salient differences in any collection of crania prevent methodical enumeration and constitute the stumbling-block of ethnic craniology.
Warren, of Boston, on the subject of a collection of crania and bones of the aborigines.
These burials were extended with an east-west orientation corresponding to the axis of the fissure; the foot bones were to the west, at the mouth of the cave, and the crania were in the tapered interior.
I shall exhibit these craniaat the free lectures and demonstrate the scientific principle upon which phrenology rests," continued the Professor, as he conducted the reporter through an inspection of the outfit.
He also exhibited to the reporter a number of other crania showing equal diversity of growth.
This variation in the proportions of the crania enables us satisfactorily to explain the marked difference presented by the single-crested and double-crested skulls, which have been thought to prove the existence of two large species of Orang.
Yet, when we examine the crania of these individuals, we find remarkable differences of form, proportion, and dimension, no two being exactly alike.
Other crania from various Quaternary deposits in Europe seem to warrant the inference that this type of man was the prevalent one during the early part of the Palæolithic age.
From what we know of the crania of the Pima, and the extinct Santa Barbara, Santa Catalina, etc.
The female Seri cranium examined by me before does not show certain of the peculiarities of this specimen; nevertheless it is very possible that both crania belonged to individuals of the same tribe.
In both races, the general form and proportions are dolichocephalic, but in the Australians the crania are absolutely longer than in the Dravidians, owing in part to the prominence of the glabella.
The comparative study of the characters of the two series of crania has not led me to the conclusion that they can be adduced in support of the theory of the unity of the two people.
Secondly, the adult crania of gorillas which have as yet been measured, differ among themselves by nearly one-third, the maximum capacity being 34.
Besides, there are present the bones and crania of women and children, with implements and articles of domestic use, such as are ordinarily deposited with the dead.
At the time of my visit, vertebrae, tibiae, portions of crania and other bones were scattered down the fallen bank, and served to denote the place of their interment, which was on the margin of the plain.
Table, showing the Size of the Brain in Cubic Inches, as obtained by the Measurement of 623 Crania of various Races and Families of Man.
The heads of the barbarous races of Europe were precisely the same as those of civilized Europe in our day; this is proven by the disinterred crania of ancient races, and by other facts.
Now, as far back as history and monuments carry us, as well as crania and other testimonies, these various types have been permanent; and most of them we can trace back several thousand years.
Lastly, as to the conformation of the skull, a point where (with great deference) I differ from the author of the excellent Crania Americana.
Specimens examined (nine males, one female; nine in alcohol, nine crania extracted and cleaned).
Specimens examined (20 males and 21 females; all in alcohol; ten crania extracted and cleaned).
Specimens examined (13 males and three females; three in alcohol, crania extracted and cleaned).
Because it was necessary to obtain dimensions and examine various morphological characteristics of skulls, many crania were extracted from bats preserved in alcohol.
Specimens examined (five males and four females; seven in alcohol; seven crania extracted and cleaned).
On the other hand, the dimensions of the entire skull show that the larger crania are of the northernmost subspecies and the smaller of the southernmost subspecies.
The crania also vary geographically; they are largest in the northernmost part of the range of the species and smallest in the southernmost part.
Diarmuid turned back then without wound or hurt on him, and he went to where Crania and Muadhan were.
I do not admit that so much can be said; for the like of the Neanderthal skull has yet to be produced from among the crania of existing men.
When sculptured decorations were added they frequently took the form of imitations of the actual festoons with which it was usual to ornament altars, or of symbols, such as crania and horns of oxen, referring to the victims sacrificed.
Elsewhere in the United States fossilized bones, crania of a low order, association of human remains with those of fossil animals are not necessarily evidence of vast antiquity.
To do this is the object of the projectedCrania Britannica, about to be published by Dr.
I beg to ask whether it is yet clearly settled that there are types of the heads of Ancient Britons, Saxons, Danes, and other races, to be referred to as standards or examples of the respective crania of those people?
Female crania of the higher and middle classes are in general much smaller relatively than is the case among the peasants, a fact which probably depends on the different mode of life and occupation.
Morton, in his «Crania Americana», has presented a number of examples of skulls from the mounds.
These skeletons are seldom deposited more than two or three feet below the surface, and are generally perfect; the crania rarely if ever crushed, and the bones still retaining a portion of their animal matter.
It will be seen that the conclusion already adopted respecting three of the skulls noticed in the Crania Americana, are sustained by the general coincidence in measurements between them and those indubitably of recent date.
The skulls found in this mound possessed no marked features to distinguish them from the crania found in the known burial-places of the Shawanoes and other late Indian tribes.
It is further desirable to remark that the statements in this Essay respecting the forms of Native American crania need rectification.
It has always seemed to me, Madam, that that same jaw-bone must have been either prodigiously strong and tough, or else the Philistine crania must have been of very chartaceous texture.
I have no doubt that, when Tommy plays bo-peep round the big tree on the Common, he is tripping over the crania of some Indian sachems.
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