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일반명 : 필트다운인(에오안트로푸스 도스니)
학 명 : Piltdown man (Eoanthropus dawsoni)
시 대 : 3.5 MYA.
발견지역 : Piltdown near Sussex, England
발견시기 : 1912
발견자 : Charles Dawson
발 표 : 필트다운맨 (1912년 영국 Sussex주 Piltdown에서 두개골이 발견되었으나 후에 가짜로 판명됨) 에오안트로푸스 도스니(Eoanthropus dawsoni)의미는 발견자이름
Piltdown Man Skull 1912 Fraud. This skull is a replica of
The portrait painted by John Cooke in 1915. Back row (from left): F O Barlow, G Elliot Smith, Charles Dawson, Arthur Smith Woodward. Front row: A S Underwood, Arthur Keith, W P Pycraft, and Sir Ray Lankester.
The "Piltdown Man" is a famous hoax consisting of fragments of a skull and jawbone collected in 1912 from a gravel pit at Piltdown, a village near Uckfield, East Sussex. The fragments were thought by many experts of the day to be the fossilised remains of a hitherto unknown form of early human. The Latin name Eoanthropus dawsoni ("
The significance of the specimen remained the subject of controversy until it was exposed in 1953 as a forgery, consisting of the lower jawbone of an orangutan combined with the skull of a fully developed, modern man.
The Piltdown hoax is perhaps the most famous archaeological hoax in history. It has been prominent for two reasons: the attention paid to the issue of human evolution, and the length of time (more than 40 years) that elapsed from its discovery to its exposure as a forgery.