Note 34 — Chapter VI · Industry, Commerce, and Social Organization; Fights, Wounds and Trepanation.

Yet another point deserves mention. It was evidently considered undesirable that the crania from which pieces had been taken should be left in a mutilated condition, and therefore pieces front other crania were taken to fill up the gap, so that, says Broca,34 a new life was evidently supposed to await the dead, for otherwise what object can the restitution have served?