Piltdown Man exposed as a fake
1953 · Event
Weiner, Oakley and Le Gros Clark show the skull is medieval human, the jaw an orangutan's, the teeth filed and stained.
On these timelines: Human Origins & the Ice Age, Master, Science & Technology
More from Human Origins & the Ice Age
- Emergence of Homo sapiens (300000 BCE)
- Split between humans and chimpanzees (7000000 BCE)
- Extinction of the Neanderthals (40000 BCE)
- Neanderthal remains found in the Neander Valley (1856)
- Pleistocene Ice Age (2580000 BCE)
- Taung Child discovered (1924)
- Bruniquel Cave structures (174000 BCE)
- Homo floresiensis, the island 'hobbits' (100000 BCE)
Around 1953
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Korean War (1950)
- Suez Crisis (1956)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- Berlin Airlift (1948)