Archive image from page 12 of Discovery Discovery discovery0304londuoft Year: DISCOVERY remains were found at a depth of 60 feet below water le\-el, and 90 feet below ground level. In this connec- tion two points are worthy of note. In the first place, the summit of the kopje, which originally covered the site before mining operations were begun, showed, at its highest point, signs of a subsidence in the shape of a shallow depression; and secondly, over the human remains was a fissure which at some time had com- municated with the surface. The skull is in a remarkably good state of preserva
Archive image from page 12 of Discovery Discovery discovery0304londuoft Year: DISCOVERY remains were found at a depth of 60 feet below water le\-el, and 90 feet below ground level. In this connec- tion two points are worthy of note. In the first place, the summit of the kopje, which originally covered the site before mining operations were begun, showed, at its highest point, signs of a subsidence in the shape of a shallow depression; and secondly, over the human remains was a fissure which at some time had com- municated with the surface. The skull is in a remarkably good state of preserva- tion, and very fresh in appearance. It is complete and is only very slightly mineralised ; this, in view of the condition of the mammalian remains with which it was associated, is in itself a remarkable fact. Its more primitive characteristics are at once evident to the observer. These are the extreme prominence of the eyebrow ridges and their marked lateral extension, the pro- jection of the lower part of the face, and the length of the face as compared with that of the modem type of skull. Owing to the projection of the eyebrow ridges, the upper part of the skull has an ape-like appear- ance of flatness. The whole character of the face, in fact, is remarkably ape-like and, as Professor Elliot Smith has suggested, when clothed with flesh it was probably even nearer to the facial aspect of the gorilla owing to the splaying of the flat nostrils. Another ape-like character was a great thickening of the muscles of the neck as indicated by the deep impressions at the base of the skull. On the other hand, Dr. Smith Woodward, in describing the skull, called attention to certain features in which it displays the characteristics of modem man. The brain case is modem in type and its thickness is not greater than in modem man. Its capacity, so far as can be judged without accurate measurement, is well above the lower level of the modern type. The upper jaw is perfectly human ; the skul
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