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Piltdown

Name: Piltdown
Address: GB

50.9820°N 0.0510°E · Q7194524

One English word in this atlas traces back to Piltdown. It sits in United Kingdom.

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Piltdown Mannoun · 1912

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A human skull, an orangutan jaw, and forty years of British paleontology.

Bones announced from a gravel pit at Piltdown in East Sussex in 1912 were accepted as the missing link, partly because they flattered a theory that the big brain evolved first. Chemical dating exposed the composite forgery in 1953, and who assembled it is still argued over.

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