| 单词 | piltdown hoax |
| 释义 | > as lemmasPiltdown hoax a. Designating or relating to an alleged fossil skull whose remains were claimed in 1912 to have been found at Piltdown in Sussex, England, or the supposed primitive hominid to which the remains were ascribed; as Piltdown hoax, Piltdown jaw, Piltdown skull.In 1953 the remains were shown to be fraudulent, and to be composed of pieces of cranium from a present-day human and a jaw from an ape that had been deliberately doctored. ΘΚΠ the world > people > protohuman > [adjective] Cro-Magnon1869 palaeanthropic1890 pithecanthropoid1890 pithecanthropic1897 theriozoic1898 Combe-Capelle1911 Piltdown1912 Predmost1912 Boskop1915 hominid1915 Neanderthalian1920 Tardenoisian1921 pithecanthropine1925 Sinanthropic1931 Solo1932 Florisbad1935 Steinheim1935 Sinanthropoid1937 Swanscombe1937 robust1971 the world > life > biology > organism > fossil > [noun] > specific fossil Piltdown skull1912 Rhodesian skull1921 Piltdown jaw1933 Saccopastore cranium1934 the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > skull > [noun] > fossil Piltdown skull1912 Rhodesian skull1921 Saccopastore cranium1934 Saccopastore skull1934 1912 Times 19 Dec. 4/5 He [sc. A. S. Woodward] inclined..to the theory that..surviving modern man might have arisen directly from the primitive source of which the Piltdown skull provided the first discovered evidence. 1913 Times 25 Feb. 10/3 The Piltdown skull has now been formally presented to the British Museum. 1916 Amer. Hist. Rev. 21 562 He further believes that the Piltdown race was not related in any way either to the Heidelbergs or to the Neandertals. 1933 A. S. Romer Man & Vertebr. xi. 246 Can it be that the Piltdown jaw does not belong with the skull? 1953 J. S. Weiner & K. P. Oakley in Bull. Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.): Geol. 2 iii. 145 The iron and chromate staining of the Piltdown jaw seems to us to be explicable only as a necessary part of the deliberate matching of the jaw of a modern ape with the mineralized cranial fragments. 1955 Bull. Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.): Geol. 3 vi. 228 We are now in a position to give an account of the full extent of the Piltdown hoax... Not one of the Piltdown finds genuinely came from Piltdown. 1989 Gamut Summer 39/1 Tests for the amount of fluorine absorbed by the bones from ground-water clearly demonstrated that the Piltdown jaw was of recent origin. < as lemmas |
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