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NAULETTE , a large cavern on the left bank of the Lesse, which joins the Meuse above Dinant, Belgium. Here in 1866 Edouard Dupont discovered an imperfect human lower jaw, . now in the Brussels Natural History Museum. It is of a very ape-like type in its extreme projection and that of the teeth sockets (teeth themselves lost), with canines very strong and large molars increasing in size backward. It was found associated with the remains of mammoth, rhinoceros
See G. de Mortillet, Le Prehistorique (1900) ; E. Dupont, Etude sur les fouilles scientifiques executies pendant l'hiver (18651866), p. 21. NAUMACHIA, the Greek word denoting a naval battle (vans, ship, and 6.x17, battle), used by the Romans as a term
amphitheatre , which was flooded with water, or in specially constructed basins (also called naumachiae). The first on record , representing an engagement between a Tyrian and an Egyptian fleet
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See L. Friedlander in J. Marquardt, Romische Staatsverwaltung, iii. (1885) p. 558. End of Article: NAULETTE If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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