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Bro, Bohuslan, Sweden; (2) Mullerp, Denmark; (3) Svaerdborg, Sweden;

4. Sandarna, Sweden.³⁴

Of these, the only useful specimen for racial deductions of any conse­quence is that of St&ngenas, consisting of a brain case, a femur, and a tibia. These were the bones of an extremely tall man, 181 cm. in height,³⁵ with long legs, particularly in the lower segments. The femur and tibia show all the peculiarities of form and development associated with Upper Palaeo­lithic man. The brain case, which is of extreme length, has an index of 71.9, a broad forehead, and prominent browridges. Furst, who has studied this fragment carefully, assigns it without question to the Upper Palaeolithic racial group, especially to the central European Aurignacian.³⁶

The Mullerp and Svaerdborg finds consist of a child’s mandible each,⁸⁷ and a few broken fragments of other bones. That of Sandarna is limited to one long bone. For further evidence of the racial composition of Magle­mose man, we must turn to northern Germany.

In northern Germany, which forms a part of the North European Mesolithic area, a number of skulls, found under varying circumstances, have been attributed to all three Mesolithic periods. It is difficult, if not impossible, to verify the alleged age of any one of them.

Among the most likely are two adult skulls, and one adult and three in­fantile mandibles, dredged from the bottom of the Pritzerber Sea, north­west of Brandenburg on the River Havel.³⁸ Although they came from a layer of blue clay underlying peat on the lake bottom, the exact geological age of these formations cannot be established. Antler and bone artefacts recovered from the same clay belong to Periods I, II, and III of the Mesolithic.³⁹ The two skulls are probably female, although the sex has not been conclusively determined. Both are of dolichocephalic type, with indices of 71; both have certain early European characters such as alveolar prognathism, strong browridges, high temporal crests, marked supramas- toid ridges, and relatively large teeth. But the two differ in some respects; number one is large headed, short faced, and chamaerrhine, and number two of small capacity, very long faced, and mesorrhine. But both have only moderate bizygomatic diameters.

81. Clarke, j. G. D., op. Cit., pp. 133-136.

³⁶ Calculated by two of Pearson’s formulas. Stat. ~ 71.272 -f 1.159 X (F -f*T), and Stat. - 71.443 + 1.22F + 1.08T.

38 Fiirst, Carl m., fkva, vol. 20, 1925, pp. 274-293.

⁸⁷ The so-called Homo kiliensis, a child’s skull, may also date from this period, but the evidence is not sufficient for certainty.

Clarke, op. cit., p. 133.

Reche, O., AFA, vol. 21, 1925, p. 176.

Kossinna, G., MannusB, #6a, 1928; Ursprung und Verbreitung der Germamn, pp. 134- 142.

• Reche, O., AFA, vol. 49, 1928, pp. 122-190. Clarke, op. cit., p. 134.