- Lansing Man
Lansing Man is the name commonly given to a collection of
human remains dug up nearLansing, Kansas in 1902. The remains were found when digging a cellar, and included at least ajaw , and according to various accounts, possibly an entire adultskull , several adult bones, and a child's jaw.The geological strata in which the remains lay was dated to anywhere between 10,000 and 35,000 years old, predating the last
ice age . However, the significance of the remains was dismissed by mostarchaeologist s, not many years after its discovery, on the grounds that they were essentially identical to those of the modern humans indigenous to the region and probably buried intentionally -- and therefore (since many scientists were unwilling to accept the idea that there had been so littleevolution ary change in the intervening millennia) the remains were assumed by most not to be as old as the strata in which they were buried.Carbon-14 testing revealed that the remains dates to the period of 2660 to 5020 B.C. [cite journal | last = Bass | first = William M. | url = http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/110487105/ABSTRACT?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0 | title = Lansing man: A half century later | journal = American Journal of Physical Anthropology | volume = 38 | pages = 99–104 | year = 1973 | doi = 10.1002/ajpa.1330380124 | format = abstract]The
Piltdown Man , discovered approximately 10 years after Lansing Man, was later exposed as a hoax.ee also
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Ipswich man
*Piltdown man External links and references
* http://www.bulbnrose.com/Heredity/King/OnceAHoax.html
* http://www.clarku.edu/~piltdown/map_report_finds/significance_discover.html
* http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/archives/1918ks/v2/960.html
* http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/archives/1912/l/lansing_skeleton.html
* http://larryjzimmerman.com/plains/archaic.html
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