WHOLE VOL, SKELETAL REMAINS OF EARLY MAN — HRDLICKA 



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MEASUREMENTS AND COMPARISONS 



MEASUREMENTS OF THE MAUER JAW 



The Mauer Jaw 



Schoetensack 



Hrdlicka 



Modern Male 

 German Jaw 



Hrdlifka 



Whole jaw and corpus: 



Total median length of whole bone 

 (from anterior vertical to middle of 

 base-line of plane formed by apply- 

 ing a plank to posterior borders of 

 the rami) 



Length of jaw (from the most anterior 

 point of the alveolar border be- 

 tween the median incisors, to a 

 point at corresponding height on 

 the posterior border of ascending 

 ramus)! 



Breadth: 



Bigonial 



Bicoronoid 



Bicondylar 



Ramus: 



Height of ascending ramus (verti- 

 cal, from line connecting upper- 

 most points on coronoids and 

 condyles) 



Breadth min. of ascending ramus. . . 



Notch, depth max 



Angle 



Condyles: 



Transverse diam. max 



Antero-post. diam 



Corpus: 



Vertical height in front, jaw and 

 teeth (from horizontal plane on 

 which the jaw reposes naturally) . . 



\'ertical height of bone at sym- 

 physis 



Vertical height at ist molar 



Vertical height at 2nd molar 



Thickness of body (at right angles 

 to vertical diam. of same) in med- 

 ian line; midway from above 



13 04 



6,632 



107° 



2.28 

 1.3 I . 63 



3-35^ 

 3 18 



1-75 



close to 10.5 



12.5 1 2. 1 



10.8 

 II 3 

 13 I 



6 75 6-95 



5-15 5 05 



0.8 0.75 



103° 106° 



2.25 

 13 



1.4 



5-4 

 {5. 2+. 2 for 

 wear of teeth) 



3-5 

 3-4 3-3 

 3 25 31 



7-5 



9.1 9.0 



10.0 



9.8 



12.2 



6-5 

 2.8 



1-5 

 116° 



2 .0 

 0.9 



6-5 

 2.7 



14 

 119 



I 95 

 0.9 



4 5 



3-4 

 2.9 2.9 



2.8 2.8 



0.9 



