Composite photograph of Charles Dawson (left) during excavation work and the lower right canine of Piltdown Man Eoanthropus dawsoni. Dawson (1864- 1916) an amateur geologist,discovered fragments of a skull near Piltdown,Sussex,which was described in 1912,& became known as Piltdown Man. A reconstruction was made by Arthur Smith Woodward,a leading palaeontologist of the day. Piltdown was presented as the link between modern man and his distant ancestor the ape,combining the large brain of man with an ape-like jaw. In 1953 Piltdown Man was shown to be a fraud. The skull fragment's were human & the jaw belonged to an ape; they were not from the same individual | |
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