WHOLE VOL. SKELETAL REMAINS OF EARLY MAN HRDLICKA ^"J 



It is this jaw, together with the subsequently found canine, that 

 has become the great " bone of contention " in the case. The reason 



Fig. g.—Eoanthrot>ns daivsoni Smith Woodward. Pleistocene gravel, near 

 Piltdown Common, Fletching, Sussex, England. (After Smith Woodward, beol. 

 Mag., 1913. pl- I5-) 



is that, as tersely stated by Dr. Woodward,' " while the Piltdown 

 skull is thus completely human, the half of the lower jaw, so far as 

 preserved, is almost precisely that of an ape." And in another place ' 



' A Guide to the Fossil Remains of Man, etc., p. 15, iQiS- 

 ' Geol. Mag., Vol. 10, pp. 433-434. I9I3- 



