The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1913-02-13

Htue worn before the pieces were emhedded
wnere they were found. They are not friahle
out tough and hard The piece of bone forming
par. VI tne wall OF the brain case is extraordi
harlly thlck-as much third of an inch
The lower jaw has two molar teeth (the first
ana second) in place. They are worn verv fiat
on the surface, The jawbone is chiefly remark.
aoie Tor the breadth Of the outstanding part or
ramus, and the shallowness of the notch 8
(called the sigmoid notch") between the artcu-
lar process A and the process facing it (the
coronoid) In this the Sussex lower Jaw is un-
like modern mans, and approaches the heavy.
ape-like jaw found in early Pleistocene sands
at Heidelberg
l have roughly sketched the four lower laws
In the accompanying figure, so that these points
can be compared made the sketch of the Sux-
sex jaw hurriedy, and it must not be regarded
as strictly accurate in measurements
The front part OF It is to a large extent broken
away. only its lower end marked in the draw
ing, being. preserved But this is a most i'm
portant bit. 1t is fattened on the under side,
and forms a fat broad union" (or 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 justifes 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 BIZ
cuspids, 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 a 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 were found embedded proves to be
as 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
600 feet or 700 feet above the level The.
chalk once stretched right over the Weald con-
tinuously. 1t 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 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
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
ed gravels containing the fints 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 Wead valley, high
up on the top of chalk hills. what are known