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| Picture No | 10638491 |
| Date | 1913 |
| Description | Piltdown Man: Dawson and Smith-Woodward search for more bone |
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Seeking remains of the oldest known Englishman: looking for relics of the Piltdown Man. Charles Dawson and A. Smith-Woodward searching for other parts of the skeleton on the site of the first discovery at Piltdown, East Sussex. In 1953, the find was 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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| Source | Page in the Illustrated London News, January 4th 1913, page 18. |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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