Well attestedNamed from the place
Piltdown Man
noun · first attested 1912
A human skull, an orangutan jaw, and forty years of British paleontology.
A forged fossil hominid, and by extension any celebrated fraud that fools the experts for years.
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- Well attestedThe place link is the standard scholarly account.
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- 1912
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- noun
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Piltdown
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Piltdown Man
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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