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AN ORANGUTAN JAW
TO A HUMAN SKULL
The Piltdown Man fos sil
that de ceived the world
of sci ence for some 40
years was ac tu al ly a fraud
con coct ed by ev o lu tion ists
put ting to geth er bones of a
man and an ape.

tive ar ti facts
found along side
the fos sils were
mere re pro duc tions,
Paleoanthropology Department made with mod ern steel
sought per mis sion to per form a new im ple ments. 183
dat ing tech nique, the flu or ide test, With the de tailed anal y ses per -
on some old fos sils. When it was car - formed by Weiner, this fraud was
ried out on the Piltdown Man fos sil, de fin i tive ly re vealed in 1953. The
it was re vealed that the jaw bone skull was 500 years old and hu man,
con tained no flu or ide. This showed and the jaw be longed to a new ly
that it had been un der ground for no dead orang u tan! The teeth had been
more than a few years. The skull add ed lat er, and their joints ab rad ed
con tained a low lev el of flu or ide, to give the im pres sion they were hu -
mak ing it on ly a few thou sand years man. Later, all the parts had been
old. stained with po tas si um di chro mate
Subsequent chron o log i cal in ves - to give them an aged ap pear ance.
ti ga tions based on the flu or ide meth - When the bones were placed in ac id,
od con firmed that the skull was on ly the stains dis ap peared.
a few thou sand years old. It was al so Le Gros Clark, a mem ber of the
re al ized that the teeth had been ar ti - team that un cov ered the fraud, was
fi cial ly ab rad ed, and that the prim i - un a ble to mask his as ton ish ment:

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