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Title: History Of The Day - Discovery of Piltdown Man Announced (1912)
Post by: TFD on Dec 18, 2013, 07:31 AM
In the early 20th-century, amateur archaeologist Charles Dawson announced that a fossilized skull belonging to a previously unknown species of prehistoric man had been found in Piltdown, England. It took 40 years to definitively determine that the skull was not that of a primitive hominid but rather a fake constructed from a human cranium and the jawbone of an ape. The perpetrator of the hoax has never been identified, though many have fallen under suspicion, including what famous author? Discuss (http://forum.thefreedictionary.com/postst50157_Discovery-of-Piltdown-Man-Announced--1912-.aspx)