The Piltdown Man Controversy
Posted by: Nick Redfern on December 22nd, 2012
In a new post at Mysterious Universe, Micah Hanks begins…
“It was indeed a scandal that shook the hallowed halls of the British Museum’s honorable geological department. Arthur Smith Woodward, then serving as the department’s keeper, had been approached with a rather curious set of bone fragments, allegedly retrieved and passed along to one Charles Dawson, a local amateur anthropologist and something of a ‘rockhound’ renowned for his curious knack for finding curiosities.
“And what would result would be a hoax that would continue to baffle paleoanthropologists for close to four decades, before the items put forth as a relic hominid ancestor of humankind, the so-called ‘Piltdown Man,’ were finally dismissed as a hoax. But in truth, the mystery isn’t all that much different from a number of silly hijinks that still occur in the various fields of hominology today. Not surprisingly, this would also include the modern field of cryptozoology.”
And here’s where you can find Micah’s complete feature.
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