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Skulls from Cave Burials at Zakro

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 October 2013

W. Boyd Dawkins
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The human remains discovered by Mr. Hogarth in the caves of the Zakro Gorge, and sent to me for identification, consist of three skulls of adults and a fragment of an upper maxillary of a child. The skulls present the following characters. All are well developed, with highly complicated sutures, and wormean bones in the parieto-occipital suture, with thin cranial walls, and without the strong muscular impressions and ridges, usually met with in prehistoric skulls, and present in all living uncivilised peoples.

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Annual of the British School at Athens , Volume 7 , November 1901 , pp. 150 - 155
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Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1901

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page 152 note 4 Ear-hole to nasion 108, to alveolar point 106 mm. In No. I skull these measurements are 102 and 100, which give an alveolar index of ·991.

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page 155 note 1 Ripley, The Races of Europe, pp. 117, 404–10.

page 155 note 2 [This conclusion is also reached by Prof. Sergi on the evidence of Skulls from Erganos in Crete in the American Journal of Archaeology, 2nd Series, v. 3, p. 315.—Ed.]

page 155 note 3 In his opinion, however, the head of the youth in the fresco is brachycephalic, and of the same shape as those of some of the present inhabitants of Crete, Letter 7, I. 1902.