In November 1953, Time Magazine published evidence gathered variously by Kenneth Page Oakley, Sir Wilfred DeGras Oakley and Joseph Weiner proving that the Piltdown Man was a forgery [7] and demonstrating that the fossil was a composite of three distinct species. It consisted of a human skull of medieval age, the 500-year-old lower jaw of a Sarawak Oragutan and chimpanzee fossil teeth. The appearance of age had been created by staining the bones with an iron solution and chromic acid Microscopic examination revealed file-marks on the teeth, and it was deduced from this that someone had modified the teeth to give them a shape more suited to a human diet.
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