The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1913-03-01

- - oeiore the pieces were embedded
ne.e tney were found They ara NOT ,y,.hIa
out tough and hard The piece ~ hors ,an..,u"
part OF the wall OF the brain case "a extr.,-a,
".riy tnick-as much a third of an inch
lug 'o"er Jaw mas two molar teeth (tbe Brst
and second) In place. They are worn verv ast
On 'ne surface The jawbone is chiefly remark.
aDie Tor the breadth of the upstand;np n.rt ~
ramus" and the shallowness of the notch q
tcaiied the sigmod notch") between the articu-
iar process and the process facing n fthe
coronoid). In this the Sussex lower Jaw Is nm
hke 2 modern mans. and approaches the heavy
apenke Jaw found in early Pleistocene sands
at Heidelberg
I have roughly sketched the four lower Jaws
IN the accompanying figure. SO that these points
can De compared made the sketch of.the Sux.
sex NY 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 In the draw,
ing, being preserved. But this is most i'm
portant bit 1t Is hattened on the under side
and forms fat. broad union" Cor symphysis)
with the other half of the Jaw tbroken 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 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 IT is necessary to introduce two large b.
cuspids. a large canine. and two large front
teeth bigger than those of and like those
of wellgrown chimpanzee.
The skull has been carefully completed" from
fits 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
1,000 years ago.
The gravel in which this fragmentary skull
and jawbone were founa embedded proves to be
a 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 much as
500 feet or 700 feet above the sea level The
chalk once stretched right over the weald con-
tinuously II has been gradually dissolved and
worn away by little streams sinking deeper and
deeper into IT, and carrying the chalk in solu-
ton. and even the green sand below It.
away to the sea. The result is that the sands
and clays of the great subcretaceous fresh-water
deposit known "the Wealden." containing
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 gravels containing the iints 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 on the edge OF the Weald valley. high
up on the ton Of chalk hills. what are known a