PILTDOWN MAN


Meaning of PILTDOWN MAN in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈpilt-ˌdau̇n- ]

noun

Etymology: Piltdown, East Sussex, England

Date: circa 1918

: a supposedly very early hominid erroneously reconstructed from a combination of human and animal skeletal remains the latter of which were later found to have been planted by a hoaxer

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