Piltdown Man: mandible and skull compared

Ape-Man of Modern Man? The two Piltdown skull reconstructions. A page from the Illustrated London News, debating the merits of Dr. A. Smith-Woodward's reconstructions of the Piltdown Man's skull and mandible over the reconstructions proposed by Professor Arthur Keith and Dr. J Leon Williams. In 1953, the find proved to be a hoax; a combination of the skull of a medieval man, the jaw of an orangutan, and chimpanzee teeth

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