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egyptian-spirit · 11 months

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| From a walk in Piltdown, East Sussex |

#mine #piltdown #east sussex #sussex #piltdown ponds #nature #landscape #trees #greenery #photography

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ancientorigins · 4 months

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There is a new development in the tale of the Piltdown Man, the UK's most notorious scientific hoax. Has Piltdown Man been more of a woman/female orangutan all along?

Originally presented as a groundbreaking discovery, it turned out to be a clever forgery, combining an orangutan specimen with human bones. But here's the twist! Recent studies suggest that the Piltdown Man might actually be a 'Piltdown Woman.' Join us as we explore this fascinating story of deception, gender reevaluation, and the profound impact it had on anthropology. Discover how a team, including 3D illustrator Cícero Moraes, have just brought this enigmatic figure to digital life, and how their research is continuously reshaping our understanding of this infamous chapter in scientific history.

#PiltdownMan #HistoricalHoax #ScientificMystery #Piltdown #hoax #fossil #hominin #fraud #female #ancient #history #ancient origins

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teaboot · 10 months

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My terminal manic pixie dream girl trait is that I like collecting antique science textbooks that have wrong or missing information. My favourite one has an entry for the Piltdown man as an example of ancient man noting that "experts are debating age and authenticity"

#Piltdown man was a hoax btw #An orangutan jaw stuck to a hominid or primate skull #It's now a rather famous hoax #But they didn't KNOW #And they were curious #And I love that

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a-book-of-creatures · 8 months

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Call Our Bluff - Encyclopaedia Zoologicana, illustrated by Isadore Seltzer, from Games Magazine, November 1978.

I always appreciate a spot-the-fake-animals quiz, but I'm mostly surprised that in the olden days of 1978 cuttlefishes were apparently an obscure animal???

#GAMES Magazine #Call Our Bluff #Isadore Seltzer #game #animals #creatures #encyclopaedia zoologicana #jeremy piltdown

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sock-ness-monster · 2 years

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I'm so sorry but I'm doing some reading about the Piltdown man for a lab report and I found this picture and-

It is a beautiful day, and you are a horrible goose about to perpetuate a paleoanthropological hoax

#it was the first thing that came to mind #the piltdown man #piltdown man #anthropology #paleontology #horrible goose #untitled goose game #goose meme

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eilooxara · 2 months

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Welp I learned a bit about anthropological hoaxes and reflected on the appeal of forgery as an art form, so I guess the whole parody song thought was worth it and I ought to at least do a couple verses.

Piltdown Man

He's got the jaw of an orangutan

I bet he's never had a mincemeat pie

Even though he's just an English guy

I'm gonna try for a Piltdown Man

I'll be giving him a nice dark tan

I'll dye his bones with this handmade ink

And cause they're looking for a missing link

That's what they'll think

#Piltdown Man #eilooxara shitposts #Shitposts that required background research

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thebristolboard · 2 years

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Original Peter Piltdown Sunday strip by Mal Eaton, published in the New York Tribune, 1942.

#Mal Eaton #Peter Piltdown #original art #newspaper strip #New York Tribune

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progynova420 · 1 year

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The Piltdown Man Fandom is DYING

Reblog if you are a true

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#piltdown man #fandom #fandom culture #fandom things #fandom edit #pilthead #english history #edits #my edits #fanfic #hoax #reality

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majingojira · 8 months

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I think my favorite aspect of this stop motion short is the fact that the other animals used in it have "Paleofail" designs.

#Stop Motion #Bluworm #The Lone Animator #Paleoart #paleontology #Retrosaurs #Piltdown Man #Uintatherium #Stegosaurus #Youtube

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beautifulcorpses · 1 year

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Before April 1st becomes April 2nd, and in the spirit of #BeautifulCorpses , I wanted to present to you a fine example of #NotFakeScience #AprilFools !

Folks, meet what once was considered a very early member of the Homo genus: Homo diluvii testis !

Yeah, so... It’s known now to have been a giant Miocene salamander, dubbed Andrias scheuchzeri. An early representative of the species including the Chinese giant water salamander, amongst others.

But when it was first uncovered in 1726, Swiss physician Johann Jakob Scheuchzer believed a man looked at him from the rock - its name literally translated to “Man, witness of the Deluge”.

Perhaps it could be compared to the Piltdown Man in England, in that it took a lot longer than what’d be normal for someone to call bullshit - 32 YEARS. That’s like an entire generation of people figuring that this was a person.

From there, it flip-flopped from consideration as a catfish, a lizard, and finally a salamander - but never again a man. And thank God, honestly.

Some have claimed that, given the fragmentary appearance of the fossil, it could’ve been mistaken for a VERY destroyed human skeleton... though I wonder how much Mr. Scheuchzer might’ve been kidding, or at least not been serious...

I mean the guy was a DOCTOR

The lack of serious thought might’ve been endemic to the science at the time. For another example of this, we can point to the first dinosaur fossil ever discovered and described in Western science, Scrotum humanum.

(to whit: this was a piece of a leg bone of Megalosaurus, the first dinosaur described as such in the science. In a world where the first name managed to stay...)

I’ll close with this incredible interpretation by C. M. Koseman for “All Yesterdays”, of what a humanoid with A. scheuchzeri’s proportions would’ve *really* looked like...