WHOLE VOL. SKELETAL REMAINS OF EARLY MAN HRDLICKA 2/ 



As to the anatomical features of the jaw we have, fortunately, an 

 evidently full-size drawing of the specimen in the Collyer report. 

 This illustration both in form and dimensions indicates a relatively 

 modern jaw. I have gone into this subject as closely as possible in 

 my " Critical Notes " on the jaw (Amer. Journ. Phys. Anthrop., 

 1924, VII, 422-423) and the details need not be repeated. The results 

 were as follows : All the measurements of the jaw, as deducted from 

 a given dimension and the illustration, agree with those of a more 

 or less modern male bone ; and the size and conformation could only 

 be associated with modern-like facial features ; none of which is 



Fig. 5. — Foxhall jaw. 



compatible with the notion of any great antiquity. The conclusion 

 was, and remains : 



Taking into consideration the uncertainties regarding the circumstances of 

 the discovery ; the good preservation of the specimen in a stratum where all 

 animal bones were reduced to unidentifiable fragments ; the considerable amount 

 of animal material which the jaw retained; its form, which showed nothing what- 

 ever primitive ; and above all its measurements, which all fit among those of 

 ordinary male jaws of recent white man, it may well be asked what remains as a 

 basis on which the Foxhall jaw could receive any further consideration in con- 

 nection with older Quaternary, not to say Tertiary, man. 



Thus the Foxhall jaw fails to establish its right as a representative 

 of Tertiary man. The object of its somewhat extended consideration 

 here is to give an example of a whole category of specimens that have 

 at some time been regarded as very ancient, only to fail on closer 

 examination to sustain this claim. Foremost among them are all the 



