The Chancelade Skull

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We might, indeed, venture to assert that in some of its most important characters, the Chancelade skull out-Eskimos the Eskimo.

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William Johnson Sollas
FRS

The Chancelade skeleton is that of a 1.55m (5 foot, 1 inch) tall man who lived in what is now France, 17,000 to 21,000 years ago.

His skeleton was accompanied by artifacts of the Magdalenian tradition.

His massive skull -- the most capacious of all Upper Paleolithic remains ever found, had a cranial capacity of not less than 1,700cc. Only one human skull in the entire global fossil record has a larger braincase (the Amud 1 Middle Paleolithic specimen from Israel).

The Chancelade skull has been classified as an Eskimo.


Left to Right: Grimaldi Negroid, Les Eyzies Caucasoid, Chancelade Eskimo.


Chancelade skull



Chancelade skull



Modern Eskimo woman, age 80-85

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The Chancelade skull was exhasutively studied by William Johnson Sollas, a geologist and anthropologist of unparalleled genius. William describes in detail the following traits:






Like many Paleolithic people, the Chancelade man survived, against all odds, an extremely traumatic skull injury which was most likely the result of a violent bludgeoning.


The skull is the most capacious in the Upper Paleolithic fossil record at over 1,700cc -- above and beyond any modern population by several standards of deviation and among the largest of any humans that ever walked the Earth.

The skull is extensively Eskimo, by a majority of cranial and facial characters, there can be no doubt or discussion that this individual belonged to the same racial type as modern Eskimos.

In the mandible, the Chancelade man shares several morphological characters with the Spy and Naulette Neanderthals and with modern Negroids.

The Chancelade skull is far removed from the Cro Magnon skull in many regards.



All of this information and more can be read in W.J. Sollas's paper on the Chancelade skull which can be found at the following link:



https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B694...it?hl=en&pli=1

[Poise n Pen]

They all have pretty square sockets, they were probably all pretty euro looking.

[Bambaryla]

The skull is the most capacious in the Upper Paleolithic fossil record at over 1,700cc -- above and beyond any modern population by several standards of deviation and among the largest of any humans that ever walked the Earth.

Outdated science. Especially stupid is comparing one skull to whole populations which are from the definition tending to averages

And in every bigger mongoloid or Europid sample you find guys with bigger head than 1700 cm3 There was thread here started by your harem boy Cosmoo about biggest brains (about 2000 cm).

[Grab the Gauge]

Outdated science. Especially stupid is comparing one skull to whole populations which are from the definition tending to averages

And in every bigger mongoloid or Europid sample you find guys with bigger head than 1700 cm3 There was thread here started by your harem boy Cosmoo about biggest brains (about 2000 cm).

In Cosmo's thread, men were found with a brain weight of 2000g, not a brain size of "2000cm". The estinated sizes in ccm were found with a formula and not by the original studies. My statement -- no skull in the human fossil record has been found with a cranial capacity exceeding the Amud 1 speciment remains true.



The science that determined this was even more "outdated" than this 20th century paper.

Please face it, Typologist. Chancelade was an Eskimo and his brain was bigger than anyone in your gypsy country.

[AndyDandy]

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What's the density of brain matter?

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"The balance of findings for human brain size, largely based on participants of European ancestry, indicates an average adult brain volume of 1260 cubic centimeters (cm3) for men and 1130 cm3 for women. There is, however, substantial variation;[1] a study of 46 adults aged 22–49 years and of mainly European descent found an average brain volume of 1273.6 cm3 for men, ranging from 1052.9 to 1498.5 cm3, and 1131.1 cm3 for women, ranging from 974.9 to 1398.1 cm3.[2] According to a study published by Smith and Beals im 1990, based on measurements of approximately 20,000 crania from 87 populations worldwide, arctic indigenous peoples and East Asians have the biggest brains in the world, with an average volume of 1,443 cm3, followed by Europeans with an average volume of 1,260 cm3. Among the Europeans, Italians have the biggest brains"

"The adult human brain weighs on average about 1.5 kg (3.3 lb)[4] with a volume of around 1260 cm3 in men and 1130 cm3 in women, although there is substantial individual variation"

So assuming they are talking about a male brain we are talking about around 1.19 grams per cm. So 2000g brain - 1680.6 cc.

[Poise n Pen]

There is also boskops man who is probably 1800 cc, maybe 2000 cc.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boskop_Man

Most theories regarding the Boskop type were based on the first labelled Boskop cranium, which was found in 1913 by two Afrikaner farmers. They offered it to Frederick William FitzSimons for examination and further research. Many similar skulls were subsequently discovered by paleontologists such as Robert Broom, William Pycraft and Raymond Dart.

The original skull was incomplete consisting of frontal and parietal bones, with a partial occiput, one temporal and a fragment of mandible. John Hawks notes that "The skull is a large one, with an estimated endocranial volume of 1800 ml. But it is hardly complete, and arguments about its overall size -- exacerbated by its thickness, which confuses estimates based on regression from external measurements -- have ranged from 1700 to 2000 ml. It is large, but well within the range of sizes found in recent males."

n April 2008, neuroscientists Gary Lynch and Richard Granger published a book on human intelligence titled Big Brain: The Origins and Future of Human Intelligence, in which Boskop fossils play a prominent role. The authors conclude that the head of a Boskop would have been some 30 percent larger than that of modern humans, giving them a large forebrain, which in turn may indicate a relatively high IQ.

A paper read to the International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences in 1956 and later published in the journal Man observed that:

"...an isolated cranial fragment found 40 years ago near the surface in a dubious geological horizon, unassociated with implements and fauna, ... there has been developed conjecture after conjecture, speculation on speculation ... the features exhibited by the Boskop skull and those which have been termed 'Boskopoid' are not specific to any 'new' single, African racial group, and in Africa they may be found in varying degrees in the Bushmen, Hottentots or Bush-Hottentot admixtures."[4]

Discover magazine gave Lynch and Granger's book a "fairly positive review"[2] and reprinted an excerpt. John Hawks says "The portrayal of "Boskops" in the Discover excerpt is so out of line with anthropology of the last forty years, that I am amazed the magazine printed it. I am unaware of any credible biological anthropologist or archaeologist who would confirm their description of the 'Boskopoids,' except as an obsolete category from the history of anthropology."[2] He does note that the Web editor at Discover replied that 'the excerpt was intended to run identified as a "controversial idea, but that context didn't come across as intended."', and that "[t]he web page has been changed to make that context clear"

I find this shit hilarious.

The SMALLEST estimate of boskops skull puts it as larger than turgenev or byron's brains, which would have fallen short of 1700 cc (if only just).

There may be someone somewhere with an above 1700 cc brain but I have never heard of such a thing and I strongly doubt there is more than a handful of people with a larger brain than those two specimens who are OBVIOUSLY very huge brained, unusual specimens.

This is like when they find 8 foot tall mummies in south america and malta and say it's "well within the human range". SURE. There is ONE LIVING MAN over eight foot tall today and a few more in history. One in ten billion people reach that height so it is perfectly within the range of modern humans

[Poise n Pen]

I researched a little further and asked around and I am pretty sure lefturdpedia is wrong/sketchy on many points. Their 1500 g estimate probably comes from north europeans like 100 years ago, that is why the average cranial capacities in ccs don't gibe with the average brain weight. The density of brain matter is NOT 1.19 but closer to 1.04 to 1.05 according some old study which seems to be the only real source.

So 2012 g would still be over 1900 cc. And that is not the largest brain ever, just the largest brain of a famouse person.

According to the Lee-Pearson formula you can estimate your CC = 0.000337(Length - 11) (Breadth - 11)(Height - 11) + 406.01

Mine is something like 1788.

So I guess that Hawks guy was correct, those would not be the hugest brains ever though they are certainly much bigger than average.