The authors assessed roentgenometrically Rank-Xerox images ot tour well-preserved skulls ot gravettian mammoth hunters from Dolní Věstonice (26,000 years ago). The basic structure ot the face expressed from lateral images in the shape ot a pentagon differs from contemporary and historical populations. As these hunters had a markedly longer mandibular body but not a longer mandibular branch, the craniogram (pentagon) is broad in an anteroposterior direction, while in the contemporary population it is narrower and longer in a vertical direction. With the exception ot skulí DV XIV, which has a marked posteriorotation ot the face, the mandible ot the hunters is characterized by detinite protrusion, a smaller gonial angle and less steepness ot the mandibular body (hypodivergent vertical intermaxillary relations). The maxilla protrudes markedly in DV XIII with a consequently more convex protile and impaired sagittal intermaxillary relations (second skeletal class). In the other skulls the convexity ot the face and sagittal intermaxillary relations are consistent with contemporary conditions. In the deptal analysis only proclination ot the upper incisors in two ot three assembled skulls is obvious.

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