Piltdown Man
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Piltdown Man was a
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In 1912, the amateur archaeologist
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Log in or register now.. Dawson and Smith Woodward discovered more bones and artifacts at the site, which they connected to the same individual. These included a
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Smith Woodward reconstructed the skull fragments and hypothesised that they belonged to a human ancestor from 500,000 years ago. The discovery was announced at a Geological Society meeting and was given the
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Log in or register now. Eoanthropus dawsoni ("Dawson's dawn-man"). The questionable significance of the assemblage remained the subject of considerable controversy until it was conclusively exposed in 1953 as a forgery. It was found to have consisted of the altered
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The Piltdown hoax is prominent for two reasons: the attention it generated around the subject of human
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Log in or register now., and the length of time, 41 years, that elapsed from its alleged initial discovery to its definitive exposure as a composite forgery.
