Piltdown Man
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[edit]- (taxonomy) A supposed early human theorized from bone fragments said to have been found in a gravel pit in Piltdown, England, in 1912, but later identified as a forgery.
- 1914, Henry Fairfield Osborn, Men of the Old Stone Age: Their Environment, Life and Art[1]:
- The Piltdown man of Sussex, England. Antiquity variously estimated at 100,000 to 300,000 years. The ape-like structure of the jaw does not prevent the expression of a considerable degree of intelligence in the face.
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[edit]forged bone fragments of an early human
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