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Deep Cuts 8: Piltdown and Out
Bonus Episode2nd February 2019 • The Dirt Podcast • The Dirt Podcast
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Last month, you joined us on a tour of human evolution, and our many ancestors therein. We also shared a bit from Dirt After Dark about pseudoarchaeology and its racist underpinnings. For this month’s Deep Cuts, why not a bit of both? We present to you the Piltdown Man, the most contentious human ancestor there never was. 

To read (or watch) more, check out: 

Pyne, Lydia (2016) Seven Skeletons: The evolution of the world’s most famous human fossils

Russell, Miles (2003). Piltdown Man: The secret life of Charles Dawson & the world’s greatest archaeological hoax.

Spencer, Frank (1990) Piltdown: A scientific forgery.

Study reveals culprit behind Piltdown Man, one of science’s most famous hoaxes (Science)

Piltdown Man is revealed as fake (PBS)

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