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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo14amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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THE DAWN MAN OF PILTDOWN, ENGLAND By William King Gregory SEVERAL years ago an English geol- ogist, Charles Dawson, F. S. A., F. G. S., was walking along a farm road close to Piltdown Common, Fletching, Sussex, when he noticed that the road had been mended with some peculiar brown flints not usual in the district. On inquiry, he relates,^ he was 1 Quar. Jour. Geol. Soc, vol. 69, pp. 117-144 Paper read Dec. 18, 1912. (Note: The now celebrated fossil liuman re- mains found at Piltdown, in Sussex, continue to excite widespread discussion and interest not only in scientific circles but also in the public press both here and abroad. The following summary has been made after a patient and impartial study of this still controversial subject. The Dawn Man is illustrated by means of casts and models which are on exhibition in this Museum, in the loan collection of Dr. .1. Leon Williams.) astonished to learn that the flints were dug from a gravel-bed on a certain farm, and shortly afterward he visited the place, where two laborers were at work digging the gravel for small repairs to the roads. As this excavation was situated about four miles north of the limit where the occurrence of flints overlying the Wealden strata is recorded, Mr. Dawson was much interested, and made a close examination of the bed. "I asked the workmen," he says, "if they had found bones or other fossils there. As they did not appear to have noticed anything of the sort, I urged them to preserve anything that they might find, l^pon one of my subsequent
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Fig. 2. Model of the Piltdown skull as reconstructed by Dr. Smith Woodward. Seen from the left side; one-half natural size. Williams Collection, American Museum The dark areas represent the portions preserved in the original fossil; the light areas are restored. The lower jaw (except the front part) is restored from the opposite side 189

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