The Elbert County tribune., 1913-02-14

little worn before the pieces were emhaddad
wnere they were found. They are not friabe.
put tough and hard The piece of bone forming
part OF the wall of the brain case is extraordi.
narily thick-as much third of an inch.
Ine lower jaw, has two molar teeth (the first
ana second) in place They are worn very fiat
on the surface The jawbone is chiefly remark
able for the breadth of the outstanding mart or
ramus and the shallowness of the notch S
tcailed the sigmoid notchD between the articu-
lar process and the process facing 1t (the
uorono'd). IN this the Sussex lower jaw is un-
ike modern mans, and approaches the heavy.
apeIike Jaw found In early Pleistocene sands
at Heidelberg
have roughly sketched the four lower laws
IN the accompanying figure, that these points
can be compared / made the sketch Of the Sux-
sex jaw hurriedly, and 1t must not be regarded
as strictly accurate In measurements.
The front part of it is to large extent broken
away only its lower end. marked in the draws
Ing being preserved. But this is most i'm.
portant bit 1t is fattened on the under side,
and forms fiat, broad union" (or symphysis)
with the other half OF the jaw (broken away)
reaching as far back the .'g' In the word Fig.
This Dr. Smith Woodward shows is unlike the
same region In modern man. or even in the
Heidelberg jaw. 1t is almost exactly like the
union of the two halves of the jaw in the chin
panzee. and justifes the completion of the jaw
made by Mr.. Frank Barlow. the able modeler of
wards suggestion.
To fill up the space for teeth indicated by the
bone, It is necessary to introduce two large bi-
cuspids, a large canine. and two large front
teeth, bigger than those OF man and like those
of well-grown 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 1t does
not resemble the skulls of the Neanderthal race.
and is In general characters closely similar to
that of the inhabitants of this part of Sussex
1000 years ago
and jawbone were found embedded proves to be
as remarkable are the human remains them
selves. The great valley known as the weald
OF Sussex is bounded on the north and south and
east and west by chalk downs often much
600 feet or 700 feet above the level. The
chalk once stretched right over the Wead con
tinuously 1t has been gradually dissolved and
worn away by little streams sinking deeper and
deeper into 1t, and carrying the chalk In sou-
tion, and even the green sand below 1t,
away to the The result is that the sands
and clays Of the great subcretaceous 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
lay 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 this form
ed gravels containing the hints washed by them
from the chalk. and they must have been lay
ing down these gravels at different levels with
out cease from the earlier times, when the chalk
was hardly worn at ALL until the present day.
We nnd on the edge of the Weald valley. high
,,p on the top OF chalk hills. what are known as