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FOSSIL MAN (BRITAIN AND BELGIUM)
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disconnected before being deposited, as none was in its normal anatomical position. A human jaw, for instance, had been broken into two portions, one, having a whitish appearance, lay in one part of the vault, and the other, having a brown colour, was found at some distance from the former, but yet when

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FIG. 26.— Two Brachycephalic Skulls from Trou du Frontal, near Furfooz, one female (1) and the other male (2).

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brought into contact the portions fitted exactly. A large slab placed in front converted the recess into an ossuary. The skeletons were pronounced by Pruner-Bey to belong to a Mongoloid race. The skulls were apparently of a mixed character— more brachycephalic than dolichocephalic but only two (Fig. 26), a male and female, were sufficiently entire to