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Piltdown Man: The Man Who Never Was
The ‘Piltdown Man’ was an elaborate hoax that kept the scientific establishment guessing for over 50 years. Skull fragments of what was claimed to be the ‘missing link’ between humans and apes were ‘discovered’ in 1912 in a gravel pit at Barkham Manor near the East Sussex village of Piltdown, in south-east England. The hoax wasn’t debunked until 1953.
So the Piltdown Man never existed.
Or did he?
This long poem takes a look at the Piltdown Man through a variety of unexpected eyes. If history is a catalogue of artifacts and documents and memories, it is arguable that this event that never happened is more alive today than when it did not occur all those years ago.
So the Piltdown Man never existed.
Or did he?
This long poem takes a look at the Piltdown Man through a variety of unexpected eyes. If history is a catalogue of artifacts and documents and memories, it is arguable that this event that never happened is more alive today than when it did not occur all those years ago.
29 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 29, 2018
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