The bones, discovered in a gravel pit in Piltdown, East Sussex, in 1912 alongside animal fossils and stone tools, were celebrated as a missing link in the evolution between apes and humans that lived around 500,000 years ago. It was nearly 50 years before it was exposed as a fake, while the perpetrators, and their motives, have remained unknown ever since. However, archaeologists, palaeontologists and anthropologists are this week holding a special meeting at the Geological Society in London to discuss the results of the latest investigation into the hoax aimed at finally answering the outstanding questions.
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Tuesday, December 18, 2012
New Study Promises To Lay Mystery Of Piltdown Man To Rest
The bones, discovered in a gravel pit in Piltdown, East Sussex, in 1912 alongside animal fossils and stone tools, were celebrated as a missing link in the evolution between apes and humans that lived around 500,000 years ago. It was nearly 50 years before it was exposed as a fake, while the perpetrators, and their motives, have remained unknown ever since. However, archaeologists, palaeontologists and anthropologists are this week holding a special meeting at the Geological Society in London to discuss the results of the latest investigation into the hoax aimed at finally answering the outstanding questions.
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