Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1913-02-14

- ~ Oeiore the pieces were embedded
wnere they were found They are not gr,ah,a
but tough and hard The piece Of 49, ,a.al
part OF the wall OF the brain case is extraordt
naIny tnlck-as much as a third of an inch
ne lower Jaw has two molar teeth (the fret
and second) in place. They are worn very aat
On the surface The jawbone is chiefly remark.
able for the breadth of the outstanding rart or
ramus," and the shallowness Of the notch 9
tcaiied the sigmoid notch") between the articu.
lar process A and the process facing il 1.-THE
coronoidJ In this the Sussex lower Jaw is un-
IKE modern mans, and approaches the heavy,
Ape-iike Jaw found In early Pleistocene sands
OF Heidelberg
have roughly sketched the four lower laws
m the accompanying figure so that these points
can De 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 1t is to large extent broken
away, only its lower end, marked X in the draw
ing, being preserved. But this is a most i'm.
portant bit 1t is hattened 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. 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 Justihes 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 BIZ
euspids. a large canine, and two large front
teeth. bigger than those of 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 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 found embedded proves to be
rs remarkable as 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 as much as
500 feet or 700 feet above the sea level The
chalk stretched right the weald con-
tlnuously. 1t has been gradually dissolved and
worn away by little streams sinking deeper and
seeper into It. and carrying the chalk in solu-
Ton. and even the green sand below 1t.
away to the The result is that the sands
and cIays of the great sub cretaceous fresh-water
deposit known "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 over this area form
cd graves containing the nints 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 find the edge az the weald valley high
VD cn ne top OF chalk hills what are known as