Piltdown man endocranial cast, plaster cast
Maker
R. F. Damon and Co (estab. 1850)
Date
1913-1953
Description
This is a speculative plaster cast of the brain of Eoanthropus dawsonii, referred to as 'Piltdown man'. This brain model was made by creating an internal cast of a reconstruction of the skull. Piltdown man was an infamous hoax, the reconstruction turning out to be the jaw bone of an orangutan combined with some historic human skull fragments. Due to the reconstructed skull’s incompleteness, differently coloured sections on the brain cast show the presence or absence of corresponding bone. This specimen was featured in this article in University of Melbourne Collections magazine: https://museumsandcollections.unimelb.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/2957609/03_Long_Piltdown-Man-23.pdf
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