ANT210H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Cardiff Giant, Piltdown Man, History Of Japan
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European"s come up with a hypothesis in regards to the ainu- naive people in. Many referred to him as god"s hand . 1) that fossils and remains of the aniu people did not look. European: had a more primiive society (no trades, men were hunters, women were. Fujimura uncovers arifacts that allegedly conirm the extension of. Only he could ind these stone tools and arifacts, no one else could. Darwin"s theory of evoluion was becoming widely accepted. All animals and plant forms in the modern world descended from early ancestral forms. A feeling of naional pride develops to the discovery a human ancestor within one"s borders. Lacked face and jaw but did no resemble that of either ape or modern human. Barnum (atempt to buy, failed to, made a fake of the fake) Newell did not like the idea of people believing in giants and decided to take advantage of it. Claims it is a giant man turned to stone.
