- By Irsan Kao
- Published March 13, 2010
- Education
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Rating:
Unrated

In 1912 Charles Dawson an amateur British archaeologist discovered the first skull of apparently primitive hominid, ancestor of man - Piltdown man or Eoanthropus dawsoni in the Piltdown quarry of Sussex, England The finding was exquisitely unique as the skull was expected to be the fossilised remains of a concealed form of early man - Homo sapiens with a primitive jaw