314 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 83 



ADDITIONAL LITERATURE 



Blake, C. Carter. On a human jaw from the cave of la Naulette, near Dinant, 



Belgium. Anthrop. Review, July and October, p. 295, London, 1867. 

 Broca. Discussion, meme seance, p. 593. 



. Discours a la seance suivante, meme Congres, p. 396. 



De Mortiixet. Le prehistorique (Bibl. Sc. contemp.), p. 244, Paris, 1883. 



De Quatrefages et Hajmy. Crania ethnica, p. 23, 1875. 



DupoNT, Edouard. fitude sur les fouilles scientifiques executees pendant I'hiver 



de 1865-66 dans les cavernes des bords de la Lesse. Bull. Acad. Roy. Belg- 



ique. Vol. 22, pp. 31-54. 2 pis., 1866. 

 . fitude sur cinq cavernes de la vallee de la Lesse et le ravin de Falmig- 



noul pendant I'ete de 1866. Bull. Acad. Roy. Belgique, Vol. 26, p. 244 



et seq., Avril, 1867. 

 Hamy. Precis de paleontologie hiimaine, p. 231, 1870. 

 Pruner-Bey. Sur la machoire de la Naulette. Bull. Soc. Anthr., Paris, Vol. L 



p. 584, 1866. 

 . Discours sur la question anthropologique. Congres internat. d'Anthrop. 



et d'Arch., p. 352, Paris, 1867. 

 ToPiNARD, P. Les caracteres simiens de la machoire de la Naulette. Rev. 



d'Anthrop., Vol. 9, pp. 385-431, 1886. 



THE SIPKA JAW 



The Sipka specimen is a fragment of the lower jaw of a child, 

 probably between eight and ten years of age. It was found in 1880 

 in the Sipka cave, near Stramberk, Moravia, by Prof. Karel J. Maska, 

 the Moravian explorer. It shows six teeth — three incisors, the right 

 canine, and the two right premolars, the three last named not yet 

 erupted. In 1912 the original of the Sipka jaw was still in the care 

 of the discoverer at Tele, Moravia, where it was seen by the writer.* 

 Since then Professor Maska has died and the specimen has coine to 

 the " Zemske Museum " of Moravia, at Brno. 



The extensive but largely obstructed cave after laborious cleaning 

 showed several (up to 8) distinct layers of paleolithic human occupa- 

 tioawith many traces of fire. Its exploration was carried on by Maska 

 from 1879 to 1883, without exhausting the deposits. 



The lower jaw was found on August 26, 1880, near the entrance of 

 a so-called " badger-hole," a small side cavity. It lay in an undisturbed 

 layer of ashes in the lowest cultural deposits of the cave, close to 



^ Schaaffhausen, H., Ueber den menschiichen Kiefer aus der Shipka-Hohle bei 

 Stramberg in Mahren. Z. Ethnol., Vol. 40, pp. 279-309, 1882. 



A detailed description of the Sipka cave (with others) and of the jaw, with 

 the earlier literature on the find, is to be found in Maska, Karel J., Der diluviale 

 Mensch in Mahren, Neutitschein, 1886. Later references are included in the 

 various textbooks on prehistory. 



