Pithecanthropoid

And about 40,000 generations separate the australopithecines from their successors, the pithecanthropoids, whom we think of as the first animals that indisputably must be classed as men.

They may in fact have been disposed of more directly: pithecanthropoids certainly ate each other and are likely to have killed and eaten their weaker kin.

The brow is without the frontal overhang found in adult pithecanthropoids, but though there is no supra-orbital ridge, there is marked post-orbital constriction.

God! those carrion black pits of sawed, picked bones and opened skulls! Those nightmare chasms choked with the pithecanthropoid, Celtic, Roman, and English bones of countless unhallowed centuries!

3°. by the strong development of the mid-frontal fissure, which is predominant in the relief of Neanderthal casts, and more primitive (more pithecanthropoid) in its character than in recent men, where it is mostly divided up into pieces, probably in consequence of the greater development of the foot of the mid-frontal convolution (see my first paper).

Culture was the work of some more or less pithecanthropoid type of hominid (e.g. Telanthropus) at a period when the Australopithecines were still flourishing.

Coon finds pithecanthropoid characteristics in a number of other North African finds, including Litorina cave, Smugglers' Cave, and Rabat in Morocco and Tangiers.

Two other skulls of the same pithecanthropoid type of Hominid have been revealed in the same geological deposits in Java by von Koeningswald in 1937 and 1938.