Piltdown Man (Model based on Piltdown 1 & 2)


View of a sculpted head reconstruction by Maurice Wilson created for the Exhibition of Britain in 1950. It is based upon the cranium and mandible fossils 'found' at Piltdown in 1913.


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Photo credit: © Natural History Museum, London / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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