ANCIENT REMAINS OF MAN — HRDLICKA, 549 



Taiibach near Weimar, Germany, in 1892, by A. Weiss. The crown 

 of this tooth shows considerable wear and this, with other character- 

 istics of the specimen, created at first an impression that the tooth 

 was perhaps not human. Later, however, the tooth was accepted 

 as proceeding from a human child. Meanwhile one of the laborers 

 at Taubach discovered in equally old deposits a first permanent left 

 lower molar about the human nature of which there can be no 

 question, and this tooth also shows various primitive features. Both 

 these finds have been reported upon and the specimens described by 

 Nehring.^ The permanent molar is preserved in the museum in Jena. 



Other specimens belonging to this category are the more or less 

 defective lower jaws of La Naulette, Malarnaud, and Sipka. The La 

 Naulette jaw was found in 1866 by Dupont in a cave at La Naulette, 

 Belgium, together with an ulna and a few other fragments of human 

 bones. The find was reported and thebones described by Dupont in the 

 Bulletin de I'Academie Royale Beige, second series, volume 12, 1866, 

 and hj Topinard in the Revue d'Anthropologie of the same year. 

 The original specimen is preserved in the Musee Royal d'Histoire 

 Naturelle, Brussels. It is evidently a portion of the lower jaw of a 

 subadult female. It lacks all chin prominence and shows primitive 

 features of the alveoli and hence teeth, such as a broad root of the 

 canine with the central groove on each side, and the very perceptibly 

 increasing size of the sockets of the molars from before backwards. 



The lower jaw of Malarnaud was discovered in 1889 in a small 

 side chamber of the cave of Malarnaud, near the village of Mont- 

 seron, Arize, France. It lay 2 meters (about 7 feet) deep beneath a 

 layer of stalagmite, in a mass consisting of a great quantity of bones 

 of Quaternary animals and reddish clay. The bone is that of an 

 adolescent, the third molars being still in their sockets. The teeth 

 are missing, with the exception of the first right molar. The jaw is 

 not of great size and is rather low but stout. As the La Naulette 

 specimen, it lacks the chin prominence such as characterizes the lower 

 jaw of modern man.- 



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

 probably between the eighth and tenth year of age. It was found in 

 1880 in the Sipka cave, near Stramberk, Moravia, by Dr. Karel J. 

 Maska, the deserving Moravian explorer. It shows six teeth — 

 three incisors, the right canine, and the two right premolars, the 



1 Nehring, A. tjber einen fossilen Menschenzahn aiis dem Diluvium von Taubach bei 

 Weimar. (Verb. Berl. G. Anthr., etc., Zeit. Ethn., 1895, pp. 338-340, 425-433.) Same 

 author, Uber einen Menschliehen Molar aus dem Diluvium von Taubach bei Weimar. 

 (Ibid., pp. 573-577.) See also Adloff, Das Gebiss des Menschen und der Anthropomor- 

 phen., Berlin, 1908; Schmidt, R. R., Die diluviale Vorzeit Deutschlands, Stuttgart, 1912; 

 and Festschrift Anthropologische Versammlung Weimar, 1912. 



2 For original descriptions of the find, see Filhol, H. — Bull, de la Soc. Philomath, de 

 Paris, 1889, and Congr^s Anthrop. Pr6hist., 1889. p. 417. 



