THE ORIGIN AND ANTIQUITY OF AIAN HI 



typo of jaw.-- b'iiially, the most perfect specimen of tlie 

 type was discovered by two competent observers at La 

 Chappllo-aiix-saints in 1 9(^)8. Those diseovorios indicate 

 the wide distribution of tliis primitive race. 



In 1891 to 1892, the island of Java, itself a remnant 



From Birkiicr. " Dor Diliiviali- Mciisch in Eurupa." 



FiGURK IS. A rcooiist ruction of tlic Xeandertlial Type of Skull. 



of an extended conlinental mass of remote time, gave up 

 a relic of the nearest to an intermediate form in the 

 series of human descent yet discovered. Here in the 

 center of the island, Dr. Dubois found buried in pleisto- 

 cene beds to the dei)lh of about forty feet below the 

 surface, the upper portion of a skull, a tooth, and a 

 thigh bono.-" It was fortunate that these most distinc- 

 tive portions of the human frame should have boon thus 



22 Koane, op. cit., p. 140; and Lucas, F. A. — '"The Antiquity of Man," 

 Centitri/, vol. GO, X. S.. pp. !);?:?-!):U. 



23 Keane, op. cit. p. 144. 



