Abstract
This chapter discusses facial links between ancient and modern primitive people. There are similarities in the facial features of Bronze Age ancestors and the Red Indians of the last century, if followed what their skulls indicate. In the following ways there are remarkable similarities: (1) the palates and the jaws are similarly broad, (2) at the angle of the jaw, there is splaying of the flange that is common to both, and (3) the molars have something of the same pattern, for they are of the same size rather than one predominating over all the rest or graduating in size from the first to the third molar and there is almost room for a fourth molar in the maxillary jaw. This is only found in the Red Indian and the Bronze Age jaw. One of the reasons for these similarities may be that they subsisted upon a similar diet. The pattern of attrition with the Bronze Age people is the same as found with the Red Indians and there are similar signs of the healed caries and the covering of heavy attrition with secondary dentine for the protection of the pulp cavities.
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