. The Dental cosmos. k Apollo face, while the concave pro- term dolichocephalic is applied to it. tile is rare. Indices between 75 and 80 are character- For years anthropologists have reeog- ized as mesencephalic!12) The ce- nized a variation in the human cranium, phalic index may run as low as (3*2. and .and have adopted means to record this it has been observed as high as 103. A variance. There are those who take into factor which is of great importance in consideration only the distance from the the identification of types is the corre- foramen magnum to the top of the nose, lation between


. The Dental cosmos. k Apollo face, while the concave pro- term dolichocephalic is applied to it. tile is rare. Indices between 75 and 80 are character- For years anthropologists have reeog- ized as mesencephalic!12) The ce- nized a variation in the human cranium, phalic index may run as low as (3*2. and .and have adopted means to record this it has been observed as high as 103. A variance. There are those who take into factor which is of great importance in consideration only the distance from the the identification of types is the corre- foramen magnum to the top of the nose, lation between the proportions of the others measure the skull as a whole from head and the form of the face. In the the foramen magnum to the mental pro- majority of cases, a relatively broad head cess. Therefore the head is, for all is accompanied by a rounded face, in purposes, best measured by what is tech- which the breadth back of the cheek bone nically known as the cephalic index. is considerable as compared with the Fig Fig. 22.


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