Skeletal Remains Suggesting or Attributed to Early Man in North America

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ...There were 16 second dentition teeth of moderate size, the canines and the incisors being rather submedium. All the teeth that are still present show a moderately advanced degree of wear. The palate measures, externally, about 5.4 cm. in length and 6.2 cm. in greatest breadth, and is quite deep and parabolic in form. The lower jaw is appar ently that of a male (as are in all probability all the other skull fragments); it shows a fairly well-developed chin and alveolar protrusion in a moderate degree. Horizontal length of the lower ramus is about 9.8 cm.; height at symphisis is 3.5 cm. There were 16 lower second dentition teeth; the molars of moderate size, the others rather submedium; the remaining teeth are normal in form, but are somewhat worn down. The upper and lower jaws fit well together and undoubtedly belong to the same cranium. The two ossa innominata indicate medium masculine size and massiveness and are in no way peculiar in form. One measured about 19.5 cm. in greatest height and 14.2 cm. in greatest breadth (between the anterior-superior and the posterior-superior spines). The femur (plate vn) measures 40.5 cm. in the bicondylar and 40.7 cm. in maximum length; the neck shows an angle of 130; the shaft approaches type 1, or the prismatic, in form and is of moderate strength; the index of the subtrochanteric flattening is 75.8; and there is present a quite pronounced third trochanter. The tibia (plate vn), measured without the spine but with the malleolus, is 34 cm. long and moderately platycnsemic (index at middle 64.9, at nutritive foramen 63.8). The inclination of the head is such as would be considered about medium in an Indian; traces of some slight superficial inflammatory process are apparent on the lower third of the bone. The remai...