The most ancient skeletal remains of man / by A. Hrdlička.

  • Alex Hrdlicka
Date:
1914
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Credit: The most ancient skeletal remains of man / by A. Hrdlička. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    642 in their place even a slight convexity. The lower part of the face was prognathic, though evidently not excessively so. The dental arches regrettably show extensive effects of a suppurative process, as the result of which all but one or two of the teeth in the two jaws have been lost, and the height of the alveolar processes was much reduced by absorption. All that can be determined is that the sub- nasal portion of the upper jaw was quite high, and that the palate was enormous. Pig. 10.—Skull of the fossil man of La Chapelle-aux-Saints, after restoration of the nasal BONES AND JAWS. (After Boule; reproduced by MacCurdy, Smithsonian Report for 1909.) The lower jaw is large, stout, chinless—though not sloping back- ward at the symphisis, and otherwise primitive. It was doubtless high, but the reduction of the alveolar process through pyorrhoea and absorption does not permit a definite appreciation of this character. Although only two badly worn premolars remain in the two jaws, it can nevertheless be clearly seen from the size of their roots, from the alveoli and from the size of the dental arches, that the teeth in this skull must have been very large.