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Piltdown
Hoax
Piltdown
was
an
archaeological
site
in
England
where
in
1908
and
1912
human,
ape
and
other
mammal
fossils
were
found
together.
In
1913
at a
nearby
site
was
found
an
ape's
jaw
with
a
canine
tooth
worn
down
like
a
human's.
The
general
community
of
British
paleoanthropologists
came
to
accept
the
idea
that
the
fossil
remains
belonged
to a
single
creature
that
had
had
a
human
cranium
and
an
ape's
jaw.
In
1953,
Piltdown
'man'
was
exposed
as a
forgery.
The
skull
was
modern
and
the
teeth
on
the
ape's
jaw
had
been
filed
down.
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