ANT210H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Confirmation Bias, Fluorine
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The skull itself was found fragmented (dark material part that was excavated) Penial and frontal bones thick, where they came from is unclear later found out that they were stained. Bones looked like they encased a modern brain. Carefully chosen breaks originally was from an orangutan. Only molar left looks human, was filed down to wear down teeth to look like it had a human diet. Hole where nerve is not related to where it is on humans. No one saw this information confirmation bias, believed what they wanted no matter the evidence. The cricket bat bone named as such so it can be quintessentially british. A new technique was found where a bone in ground will absorb fluorine, longer in the ground more fluorine gets added and nitrogen leaves the object. The piltdown bones had very little fluorine slightly different fluorine levels found on each bone mandible and skull showing that they did not come from the same thing.
