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The biggest scandal in prehistoric anthropology since Piltdown Man

Feb 22, 2005 15:03

(NOTE by FPB: this is particularly significant for me because I have long had big trouble with the notion of Cro-Magnon Man being closely associated with, or even the same species as, Neanderthal Man)

History of modern man unravels as German scholar is exposed as fraud

Flamboyant anthropologist falsified dating of key discoveries

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kikei February 22 2005, 17:45:46 UTC

wow. that definitely forces us to turn back a few pages...

I actually have a page on cro-magnon man in a kiddie encyclopaedia (I say kiddie because I got it when I was about five, and it's designed for 'young readers. yes, I used to read encyclopaedias, lol) and the whole concept behind it. I thought it was a bit far-fetched.

-Kiks

agatha_s February 22 2005, 18:54:03 UTC

I don't know much about the paleolithic era, but I'm sure I learned about Cro-Magnon Man as a homo sapiens sapiens. I didn't know that there was an idea that he belonged to the same species as Neanderthal Man.
This whole scandal - I wouldn't have been surprised if something like that happened in my country, but in Germany? German scientists are known to be so pedantic and precise. How could his co-workers have failed to notice that he was making things up?