Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1913-02-14

little worn before the pieces were emhodded
where they were found. They are not friable
out toosh ana hard The piece Of bone forming
part OF the wall Of the brain case is extraordi
narily thick-as much as third of an inch
The lower jaw has two molar teeth ftba fret
ana second) In place They are worn very fiat
on the surface. The jawbone is chiefly remark.
able for the breadth of the outstanding part or
ramus, and the shallowness of the notch S
(called the sigmoid notch') between the articu.
lar process A and the process facing it (the
coronoid). In this the Sussex lower law is I'M
axe modern mans, and approaches the heavy
Ape-like jaw found in early Pleistocene sands
at Heidelberg
l have roughly sketched the four lower Jaws
IN the accompanying figure, that these points
can be compared. / made the sketch Of the Sux
sex Jaw hurriedly, and it must not be regarded
as strictly accurate in measurements
The front part OF 1t is to large extent broken
away, only its lower end marked in the draw
Ing, being preserved. But this Is most i'm
portant bit. 1t is fattened on the under side
and forms fiat, broad union" Tor symphysis)
with the other half of the jaw (broken away
reaching as far back as the ''g" in the word Fig
This DR.. Smith Woodward shows is unlike the
same region in modern man, in the
Heidelberg jaw. 1t is almost exactly like the
union of the two halves of the jaw in the chin
panzee, and justifies the completion of the jaw
made by Mr.. Frank Barlow, the able modeler of
the Natural History Museum, at DR.. Smith Wood
wards suggestion
To fill up the space for teeth indicated by the
bone 1t Is necessary to introduce two large b.
cuspids. large canine, and two large front
teeth, bigger than those Of man and like those
Of a wellgrown chimpanzee.
The skull has been carefully completed from
its fragments by DR. Smith Woodward and Mr..
Barlow. and proves to have good straight fore
head and is probably that of a woman. 1t does
not resemble the skulls of the Neanderthal race.
and is in general characters closely similar to
that Of the inhabitants of this par. of Sussex
1000 years ago
The gravel in which this fragmentary skull
and jawbone foupd embedded proves to be
rs remarkable as are fae human remains them
selves The great valley known as the Weald
Of Sussex Is bounded on the north and south and
cast and west by chalk downs, often as much as
500 feet or 700 feet above the sea level Tne
chalk once stretched right over the Weald con-
tinuously 1t has been graduall- dissolved and
worn away by little streams sin ding deeper and
deeper into II, and carrying the chalk In sou-
tion, and even the green sand below IL.
away to the sea- The result is that the sands
and claws of the great sub-cretaceous fresh-water
deposit known as "the Wealden. containing re-
mains Of Iguanodon and other great reptiles, are
exposed. The chalk and green sand which once
Law to the thickness OF several hundred feet over
the present surface have been slowly carried
away but they still remain all around the edge
of this great valley OF erosion The waters
which wore away the chalk over this area form
ed graveIs containing the fints washed by them
ryom the chalk and they must have been lay
Ing down these graveis at different levels with
nut cease from the earlier times. when the chalk
was hardly worn at ALL until the present day.
We find on the edge OF the Weald valley. high
up on the top of chalk hills. what are known as