Photo Mug : Excavations at Piltdown c. 1913
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Excavations at Piltdown c. 1913
Arthur Smith Woodward and the Abbe Henri Breuil at Piltdown
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Large Photo Mug (15 oz)
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Elevate your coffee or tea experience with our premium white ceramic mug. Its wide, comfortable handle makes drinking easy, and you can rely on it to be both microwave and dishwasher safe. Sold in single units, preview may show both sides of the same mug so you can see how the picture wraps around.
Elevate your coffee or tea experience with our premium white ceramic mug. Its wide, comfortable handle makes drinking easy, and you can rely on it to be both microwave and dishwasher safe. Sold in single units, preview may show both sides of the same mug so you can see how the picture wraps around.
These are individually made so all sizes are approximate
EDITORS COMMENTS
This evocative photograph captures the moment of discovery at the Piltdown excavation site in Sussex, England, in 1913. The scene is set against the backdrop of the rolling English countryside, with archaeologists Arthur Smith Woodward and Abbe Henri Breuil deeply engrossed in their work. The Piltdown Man, a purported early human fossil discovery, was hailed as a major find in the field of human evolution at the time. However, the authenticity of the Piltdown Man was later revealed to be a hoax, one of the most notorious in the history of science. The Piltdown Man, discovered in 1912, was believed to be the missing link between apes and humans, with a skull that appeared to exhibit both ape-like and human-like features. The discovery was met with great excitement and acclaim, and the photograph of Woodward and Breuil at the excavation site became a symbol of the groundbreaking work being done in the field of human evolution. However, the Piltdown Man was eventually exposed as a forgery in the 1950s, with modern scientific techniques revealing that the skull was actually a combination of a modern human skull and an orangutan jawbone. The Piltdown Hoax, as it came to be known, cast a shadow over the field of paleoanthropology and led to increased scrutiny of other fossil discoveries. Despite the later revelation of the Piltdown Man's inauthenticity, this photograph remains an important historical artifact, a reminder of the excitement and passion that drove scientists like Woodward and Breuil in their quest to uncover the secrets of human origins. The Piltdown Archive, which includes this photograph and other related materials, is an invaluable resource for scholars and historians studying the history of human evolution and the role of scientific fraud in shaping our understanding of the past.
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