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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo14amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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Fig. 7. Temporal bones of the Piltdown man (.1), of a negro (B), and of a female orang-utan^(C). Two-thirds natural size ar. e., articular eminence (for lower jaw); c. c, carotid canal; e. a. m., opening leading to middle ear; g. s., glenoid socket (for lower jaw); pet., bone surrounding internal ear; st., pit for styloid process; t. p., tympanic plate; z, root of zygomatic arch remains. The canine, which was dis- covered by Father Teilhard in the place where the other remains came from, was identified by Dr. Smith Woodward as belonging in the right side of the lower jaw; but as shown in figure 6, by com- parison with the upper and lower canines of a female orang, its resemblances are on the whole closer to the left upper canine, as observed by Mr. A. E.
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Fig. 8. Internal cast of the Piltdown skull. The fully shaded parts are represented in the original, the rest is restored. After EUiot Smith. The branching system represents the grooves for the meningeal arteries which are on the inner surface of the brain-case 196 Anderson. If it be an upper canine its wearing surface is such that the first lower bicuspid which occluded with it must have been elongate and prominent and much more anthropoid than human in shape. Taken in connection with the total lack of a chin, and with the straightness of the molar tooth rows, this indicates that the lower part of the face and the dentition were even more apelike than in Dr. Smith Wood- construction. If the canine ;in upper one, this would tend confirm the association of the jaw with the skull, in the opinion of American Museum collectors. While perhaps not con- clusive the foregoing con- siderations tend strongly to show that all the Pri- mate remains so far dis- covered at Piltdown be- longed to one individual, which is represented by the greater portion of the brain-case, by the nasal bones, by the left upper

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