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by A.J.Monty White
February 6, 2006 

Piltdown Man was held forth as a missing link in human evolution for 40 years, but it turned out to be a complete hoax. In 1912, amateur naturalist Charles Dawson told the Geological Society of London that over the previous four years fragments of a skull, half of a lower jawbone, and a tooth had been found at the Piltdown gravel pit in Sussex.

The Piltdown Man was exposed as a forgery mainly through the work of Dr Kenneth Oakley. He showed that the skull was from a modern human and that the jawbone and teeth were from an orangutan.To continue click on the link below:

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