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...older than the oldest British citizen or the ape. Dismayed anthropologists found that the Piltdown skull was the concotion of the jawbone of a modern ape with the skull of a modern man--the most colossal fraud over to be executed in the fossil world. Insisted dumfounded Hallam L. Movius, associate professor, of Anthropology: "Most people in the field are virtuous, honest...
Uncovered in the summer of 1953, the site has been dated in the Upper Paleolithic era, going back 18,000 to 25,000 years. Preliminary excavations, Professor Movius reported, unearthed a very large series of flint pieces and, more important, "better preserved and more complete mammalian material than as been recovered in recent years...
...Movius noted that vertebrae remains dating back about 25,000 years indicated that the chief food source then was the horse. Examinations of the upper levels indicated that 7,000 years later the reindeer had become the chief meat food...
This suggests that the hunting cultures were adjusted to their environments, Movius said...
...Movius pinpointed the site as a farm in the French village of Les Eyzles in "the prehistoric capital of Western Europe...