Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1913-02-14

little worn before the pieces were embedded
where they were found. They are not friable,
but tough and hard The piece Of bone forming
part of the wall of the brain case is extraordi
narily thick-as much as a third of an inch
The lower jaw has two molar teeth (the first
and 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 8
(called "the sigmoid notch') between the articu-
lar process and the process facing it (the
coroncd). In this the Sussex lower jaw is I'M
like a modern mans, and approaches the heavy
ape-llke jaw found in early Pleistocene sands
at Heidelberg
have roughly sketched the four lower jaws
in the accompanying figure, SO 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 It 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 fat 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, or even In the
Heidelberg law. 1t is almost exactly like the
union Of the two halves Of the jaw in the cnlm
ranzee and justifies the completion OF the Jaw
made by Mr. Frank Barlow, the able modeler OF
the Natural History Museum, at Dr. smith Woou
wards suggestion, -,
n All M the space for teeth indicated by the
hona Il Il necessary to introduce two large Dt
cusnids a large canine and two large lron'
taeth bigger than those Of man ana nKe enose
Of weIlgrown chimpanzee
rho sl,ulI has been carefully completed from
a. fragments by DR.. Smith Woodward ana Mr.
barlow and proves to have good straight lore
mead and Is probably that Of woman y uoes
NJ resemble the skulls Of the Neandertnal race'
and is in general characters closely slll't,a.
~. ~ the inhabitants OF this par. OF Sussex
1000 years ago u,-,,,
49, Gravel in which this fragmentary skull
s.nshona we're found embedded proves to DC
49, .o,,orlable as are the human remains tnem
$50 THE great valley known as the Wealo
= cnssev q bounded on the north and south anc
z and west by chalk downs often as mucn q
eoo feat or 700 feet above the sea leVeL An'
sSa,p once stretched right over the Weaiu con
t,ruouslv. II has been gradually dissolved any
'.-orr away BY little streams sinking deeper any
ssaaor info II and carrying the chalk IN soLu
.,or and even the green SAND DeloW
ar,av "a the sea- The result Is that tne sanu
"a claws Of the great sub-cretaceous lesn-"oso
deposit known as the Weauen' a4.,a. 49,
mains Of Iguanodon and other great reptlles' q
exnosed The chalk and green sana wn as. On u.
tho thickness of several hundred feet owe
las nrasent surface have been slowly carrie
ene Pm Int thew still remain all around the edg
a ~ Ne Great valley of erosion The water
q s wore away the chalk over this area form
~ travels containing the fints washed BY tneI
- = the chalk, and they must have been LAY
,o down these gravels at different levels wlti
nnt cease from the earlier times when the 81. cnai
was hardly worn at all, until the present 1 oa y.
"s wa ans on the edge of the Weald valley, h'g
M n the TOP Of chalk hills what are kn0~n