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jwz (jwz@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 10-Nov-2024 06:00:51 JST jwz

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I absolutely want to see the movie for which this story is the mid-credits epilogue. Archaeologists Bewildered by Skeleton Made From Bones of at Least Eight People Who Died Thousands of Years Apart: During a recent...
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  Today in Sarcophagus Juice news:
  
  I absolutely want to see the movie for which this story is the mid-credits epilogue. Archaeologists Bewildered by Skeleton Made From Bones of at Least Eight People Who Died Thousands of Years Apart: During a recent reexamination of the bones, researchers noticed peculiarities. For instance, the skeleton's spine appeared to be made of both adolescent and adult vertebrae. [...] Veselka's team ...
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  dougfort (dougfort@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 10-Nov-2024 06:29:54 JST dougfort
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  @jwz I'm sure you're familiar with Piltdown Man. Stepehn Jay Gould suggested that Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was responsible. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piltdown_Man
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    The Piltdown Man was a paleoanthropological fraud in which bone fragments were presented as the fossilised remains of a previously unknown early human. Although there were doubts about its authenticity virtually from the beginning (in 1912), the remains were still broadly accepted for many years, and the falsity of the hoax was only definitively demonstrated in 1953. An extensive scientific review in 2016 established that amateur archaeologist Charles Dawson was responsible for the fraudulent evidence. In 1912, Charles Dawson claimed that he had discovered the "missing link" between early apes and man. In February 1912, Dawson contacted Arthur Smith Woodward, Keeper of Geology at the Natural History Museum, stating he had found a section of a human-like skull in Pleistocene gravel beds near Piltdown, East Sussex. That summer, Dawson and Woodward purportedly discovered more bones and artifacts at the site, which they connected to the same individual. These finds included a jawbone, more skull fragments, a set of teeth, and primitive tools. Woodward reconstructed the skull fragments and hypothesised that they belonged to a human...

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