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did not contain any fluorine. This indicated that it had remained buried no more than a
few years. The skull, which contained only a small amount of fluorine, showed that it
was only a few thousand years old.
The latest chronological studies made with the fluorine method have revealed that
the skull is only a few thousand years old. It was determined that the teeth in the jaw-
bone belonging to an orang-utan had been worn down artificially and that the "primi-
tive" tools discovered with the fossils were simple imitations that had been sharpened
with steel implements. 47 In the detailed analysis completed by Weiner, this forgery was
revealed to the public in 1953. The skull belonged to a 500-year-old man, and the
mandibular bone belonged to a recently dead ape! The teeth were thereafter specially
arranged in an array and added to the jaw and the joints were filed in order to resemble
that of a man. Then all these pieces were stained with potassium dichromate to give them
a dated appearance. These stains began to disappear when dipped in acid. Le Gros Clark,
who was in the team that disclosed the forgery, could not hide his astonishment at this
situation and said that "the evidences of artificial abrasion immediately sprang to the
eye. Indeed so obvious did they seem it may well be asked - how was it that they had
escaped notice before?" 48 In the wake of all this, "Piltdown Man" was hurriedly removed
from the British Museum where it had been displayed for more than 40 years.

Nebraska Man: A Pig's Tooth
In 1922, Henry Fairfield Osborn, the manager of the American Museum of Natural
History, declared that he had found a fossil molar tooth in West Nebraska near Snake
Brook belonging to the Pliocene period. This tooth allegedly bore the common character-
istics of both man and ape. Deep scientific arguments began in which some interpreted
this tooth to be of Pithecanthropus erectus while others claimed it was closer to human
beings. This fossil, which aroused extensive debate, was called the "Nebraska Man". It
was also immediately given a "scientific name": Hesperopithecus haroldcooki.
Many authorities gave Osborn their support. Based on this single tooth, reconstruc-
tions of the Nebraska Man's head and body were drawn. Moreover, the Nebraska Man
was even pictured along with his wife and children, as a whole family in a natural set-
ting.
All of these scenarios were developed from just one tooth. Evolutionist circles accred-
ited this "ghost man" to such an extent that when a researcher named William Bryan
opposed these biased decisions relying on a single tooth, he was harshly criticised.
In 1927, other parts of the skeleton were also found. According to these newly-dis-
covered pieces, the tooth belonged neither to a man nor to an ape. It was realised that it

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