. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Geology. 186 HUMAN SKELETAL MATERIAL FROM CEYLON. Fig. 6. Frontal contours of one Balangodese (BP3/27-34 —^—^—), one Vedda (1949. ), a compound tracing of eighty-two male Australians (Wagner 1937 ), a compound tracing of one hundred and twenty-four male New Guineans (Hambly, 1940 the cranial profile. The musculature of the nuchal crests is weakly developed among the Veddas, a condition reflected in the Balangodese females but not in the robust male BP2/17 (Text-figs. 5-6). The temporal muscles occupy extensive areas of the crania in bo
. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Geology. 186 HUMAN SKELETAL MATERIAL FROM CEYLON. Fig. 6. Frontal contours of one Balangodese (BP3/27-34 —^—^—), one Vedda (1949. ), a compound tracing of eighty-two male Australians (Wagner 1937 ), a compound tracing of one hundred and twenty-four male New Guineans (Hambly, 1940 the cranial profile. The musculature of the nuchal crests is weakly developed among the Veddas, a condition reflected in the Balangodese females but not in the robust male BP2/17 (Text-figs. 5-6). The temporal muscles occupy extensive areas of the crania in both populations. The temporal lines rise high along the vault of the Vedda skulls. They are less prominent on the parietals of the Balangodese. The mastoid process is generally small among the Veddas, but several skulls of Hill's series possess large processes like that of BP2/17, and these generally belong to males of dubious ancestry. The tympanic plate is thick in Veddas and Balangodese. The oval form of the Vedda auditory meatus contrasts with the elliptical and round conformations of this struc- ture in the fossil population. Like the Balangodese, the Vedda cranial vault is characterized by suture patterns of simple design with some slight complexity apparent at peripheral margins. Metopism, which is uncommon in Veddas, is absent in the Balangodese specimens. However the former series exhibits a high frequency of Wormian bones, especially at lambda and pterion. Sutural patterns are complex in this area in Balangodese skulls but Wormian ramifications are absent (Text-fig. 7). Hill regards the typical Vedda face as euryprosopic for males and hypereuryproso- pic for females, the mean index of his " Selected Series " being 84-14. The males average 85-44, the females 79-73. However, for the living individuals that Hill examined, the average Total Facial Index is within the leptoprosopic category, the class to which the Balangoda female BP3/27-34 is also assignabl
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