. Bulletin. Ethnology. hrdliCka] SKELETAL REMAINS OF EAELY MAN 339 can not possibly correspond to conditions that actually existed. But, what is most important, the posing of the fragment was wholly incorrect and is responsible for the apparent resemblances to lower forms on which was based the genus Diprothomo. A num])er of Alsatian skulls were found to show characteristics of the frontal bone closely approximating those of the Buenos Aires fragment (fig. 50). ''The skull-fragment of Diprothomo is that of a true man" and the size of the skull was very respectable. The frontal bone is not
. Bulletin. Ethnology. hrdliCka] SKELETAL REMAINS OF EAELY MAN 339 can not possibly correspond to conditions that actually existed. But, what is most important, the posing of the fragment was wholly incorrect and is responsible for the apparent resemblances to lower forms on which was based the genus Diprothomo. A num])er of Alsatian skulls were found to show characteristics of the frontal bone closely approximating those of the Buenos Aires fragment (fig. 50). ''The skull-fragment of Diprothomo is that of a true man" and the size of the skull was very respectable. The frontal bone is not excessively narrow nor too long, "its breadth falls within the range of variation of the Alsatian crania," and its length, as well as the. Fig. .50. Norma lateralis of Diprothomo fragment (shaded, and bounded by hatch-line) and Ameghino's "completion" of such fragment (.shaded and bounded by broken line), compared with norma lateralis of Alsatian skull (unshaded and bounded by solid line). (After Schwalbe; slightly reduced.) length-breadth index of the bone, is not seldom exceeded in modern man's skulls. Nor is there any indication that the parietals were relatively or absolutely too short. "All the rest of the features dwelt upon by Ameghino are referable to a wholly false orientation of the ; On page 235 Schwalbe gives an illustration showing the differences m Ameghino's posing of the fragment and its consequent appearance, with an approximation of the same to the horizontal plane used by the Gorman anthropologists. This drawing is here reproduced (pi. 54).. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington : G. P. O.
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