Posted on 09/02/2009 8:23:21 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
“It’s interesting how two people involved with Piltdown (Teilhard and Black) later moved on to Peking Man.”
—Not really, not if you stretch “involvement” far enough.
Dr Black didn’t arrive in England until 1914, 6 years after the first find and two years after Piltdown’s announcement, and he doubted the validity of Piltdown Man upon examining him. He didn’t even believe that human’s ancestors would be found in Europe – which is why he went to Asia.
As for Teilhard, he didn’t arrive in China until a couple years after excavations of Peking man began, and didn’t get involved in any way with the work until a few years after he arrived. He may have been on-site for a short time as an advisor in 1926, but I don’t think he ever returned. He spent the rest of his years traveling the world, creating a geologic map of China, and writing very odd books.
Was Teilhard in the cave at the moment when the skull was found? I don't know. But he was not a bystander by any means.
Because he's fake?
“Teilhard did come back and in 1929 was part of the group that found the Peking man skull. Up to that time I think that all that had been found was teeth, etc.
Was Teilhard in the cave at the moment when the skull was found? I don’t know. But he was not a bystander by any means.”
—You’re right! He was back in China at the time - I thought he was in France, but the Paris Museum of Natural History paid him to do some paleontology work in China, and he did work for the team that found the skull. I can’t find anything describing what work he did, or where he was at the time of the discovery though. I’ll have to do more digging.
Let me know what you find as I’ve looked a bit but I don’t feel like investing in any new books to get the details.
Until the early 20th century the Colorado River ran free from its headwaters in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado south into Mexico, where it emptied into the Gulf of California. Loads of nourishing silt from throughout the Colorado River Basin washed downstream, creating the vast Colorado River Delta.http://www.edf.org/Covering 1,930,000 acres, the delta extended from just north of the U.S.-Mexican border to the confluence of the Colorado and the Gulf. An abundant mix of plants and animals flourished there. The plentiful fish and wildlife drew the native Cucupa Indians to settle the area more than a thousand years ago, where they lived off the bounty of flora and fauna and farmed the fertile soils.
Early history tells us that before all the dams were built, the Colorado River delta in Mexico extended over two million acres, an area almost the size of Rhode Island, rich with nutrients brought downriver with tons of silt.http://www.sandiego.com/
Some dead guy preserved in a bog for 1700 years was faked?
Were ALL the bog bodies faked be why does the science community that studied these bodies not know of this hoax?
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