Abstract
DURING the course of an investigation on ancient Anatolian crania, I found a mandible with four or five foramina instead of a single foramen mentale. I am reporting it here as it is a very rare case, if not indeed the first one, reported for Homo sapiens. In fact, Prof. F. Weidenreich1 in his exhaustive monograph on the mandibles of Sinanihropus pekinensis (p. 29) quotes Simonton to the effect that “four or five foramina have never been found in recent man regardless of race”. The same author also cites Akabori as never having observed four or five foramina among the Japanese.
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