Martin Antonenko
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A Fake Is Only Revealed After More Than 40 Years ...!
On December 18, 1912, members of the respected "Royal Geological Society of London" presented what they call an "epoch-making find":
Namely the skull and other bone fragments of a hitherto unknown species of human that, according to their statements, had been discovered four years earlier in a gravel pit near Piltdown (Sussex) ...:
Charles Dawson (the little one standing at the table on the left) is celebrated as the "discoverer" who secured the allegedly barely recognizable finds.
The matter is so important to the Geological Society that they are having the photo of the presentation reproduced as a life-size oil painting ...:
Here the find scene for newspaper photographers recreated - Mr. Dawson "digs" in a suit and with a hat ...:
... and the "explorer" proudly poses with a shovel for the camera ...:
The skull of the - now so called - "Piltdown Man" is largely similar to the skull of a modern person, with the exception of the occiput, a region at the transition from the skull to the spine, and the size of the brain, which is only about two-thirds of that of a modern person .
The teeth and jawbones, on the other hand, hardly differ from those of today's young chimpanzees.
The members of the Geological Society and many other scientists around the world are certain: The "Piltdown man" is the long sought "missing link" between ape and man!
According to reconstructions of the skull, primitive man is said to have looked like this ...:
The presentation turns out to be the sensation expected by the Geological Society - it is being reported around the world ...:
On July 23, 1938, a memorial stele was erected in the gravel pit - the alleged place of discovery - by the "British Museum" (where the skull is exhibited) ...:
The inscription on it - hardly legible today - reads:
“Here in the old river gravel, Mr. Charles Dawson, FSA, 1912–1913 found the fossilized skull of the Piltdown man. The discovery was described by Mr. Charles Dawson and Sir Arthur Smith Woodward in the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 1913-15. "
A local pub owner recognizes the moment and renames his pub "The Piltdown Man"!
Little by little, the "Piltdown man" became quieter - even if critical voices in scientific circles never fell silent - the alleged "Missing Link" was in stark contrast to the main main direction of human evolution, as it was discovered in other places in the meantime appeared to show fossil hominini.
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On December 18, 1912, members of the respected "Royal Geological Society of London" presented what they call an "epoch-making find":
Namely the skull and other bone fragments of a hitherto unknown species of human that, according to their statements, had been discovered four years earlier in a gravel pit near Piltdown (Sussex) ...:
Charles Dawson (the little one standing at the table on the left) is celebrated as the "discoverer" who secured the allegedly barely recognizable finds.
The matter is so important to the Geological Society that they are having the photo of the presentation reproduced as a life-size oil painting ...:
Here the find scene for newspaper photographers recreated - Mr. Dawson "digs" in a suit and with a hat ...:
... and the "explorer" proudly poses with a shovel for the camera ...:
The skull of the - now so called - "Piltdown Man" is largely similar to the skull of a modern person, with the exception of the occiput, a region at the transition from the skull to the spine, and the size of the brain, which is only about two-thirds of that of a modern person .
The teeth and jawbones, on the other hand, hardly differ from those of today's young chimpanzees.
The members of the Geological Society and many other scientists around the world are certain: The "Piltdown man" is the long sought "missing link" between ape and man!
According to reconstructions of the skull, primitive man is said to have looked like this ...:
The presentation turns out to be the sensation expected by the Geological Society - it is being reported around the world ...:
On July 23, 1938, a memorial stele was erected in the gravel pit - the alleged place of discovery - by the "British Museum" (where the skull is exhibited) ...:
The inscription on it - hardly legible today - reads:
“Here in the old river gravel, Mr. Charles Dawson, FSA, 1912–1913 found the fossilized skull of the Piltdown man. The discovery was described by Mr. Charles Dawson and Sir Arthur Smith Woodward in the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 1913-15. "
A local pub owner recognizes the moment and renames his pub "The Piltdown Man"!
Little by little, the "Piltdown man" became quieter - even if critical voices in scientific circles never fell silent - the alleged "Missing Link" was in stark contrast to the main main direction of human evolution, as it was discovered in other places in the meantime appeared to show fossil hominini.
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