Word: skulls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Between the years 1912 and 1914 Mr. Charles Dawson found in a stratum of gravel at Piltdown Sussex, fragments of a fossilized skull and jaw which were reconstructed by Sir Arthur Smith Woodward as Eoanthropus, the famed man of Piltdown. Some scholars refused to believe at first that a skull so human could be associated with a jaw so apelike, but present-day consensus is that the fragments actually belonged to one individual. Most anthropologists-notably excepting Sir Arthur Keith-hold that the Piltdown man, like the Pekin man and the Java apeman, were offshoot types which died...
Last year a London dentist and archeologist named Alvan T. Marston found a primitive skull fragment in the gravel at Swanscombe, Kent. Few months later a bigger piece, the left parietal bone, was discovered. In his latest report to Nature Dr. Marston stated that his skull is more primitive in a number of points-including a lower and more sloping vault, "flat ruggedness and non-filled out contours"-than the skull of the Piltdown man, and therefore that the Swanscombe man should be assigned his rightful place as England's oldest oldster...
...Aleutian Islands off Alaska with a gang of amateur helpers to study traces of prehistoric migration from Asia. Last summer he brought back great quantities of weapons, household utensils, stone lamps, plates, amulets, skeletons. Last week the Smithsonian Institution announced that among this material had been found the largest skull ever recorded on the Western Hemisphere. The cranial capacity was 2,005 cubic centimetres. Average for modern man is 1,450 cc. World record is still held by the great Russian Novelist, Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883), with...
...Aleutian skull appeared perfectly normal, with no evidence of giantism which would have thickened it, or of hydrocephaly ("water on the brain") which would have deformed it. The shape was symmetrical, the forehead impressive. Dr. Hrdlicka believed that it belonged to a brainy Aleut of ordinary stature who inhabited the islands some centuries before the coming of the Russians...
...same time. When the paralysis immediately follows a mastoid operation, the nerve may be under pressure and should be exposed at once. When the nerve is destroyed sufficiently to require insertion of a nerve graft, the operation must be delayed several months; if cut across or torn across in skull fracture, three weeks after the injury seems to be the best time to insure perfect regrowth of nerve fibres and restoration of motion to the face...