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...They said that they were local farmers who had been coerced previously into playing cavemen. A few weeks later, a team from Der Stern arrived, led by the Tasaday's original discoverer, and found them once again wearing leaves. That, supposedly, proved they were fake. Comparisons were drawn with Piltdown Man, the great paleoanthropological hoax of the early 20th century...
DIED. E.T. HALL, 77, archaeologist and leading archaeometrist who famously uncovered the Piltdown Man hoax; in Oxford, England. Using X-ray fluorescence, Hall showed that the Piltdown Man's skeleton--once thought to be evolution's "missing link"--had been stained to look fossilized and that the teeth of an orangutan had been filed to appear more human...
...Frances gained Oscar nominations, but despite critical success, the pressures of balancing family and fame led her to work infrequently. DIED. EDWARD HALL, 77, archaeologist who developed instruments and carbon-dating technology that were used to determine the age of the Shroud of Turin and to prove that the Piltdown man was a hoax; in Oxford, England. DIED. BETTY EVERETT, 61, soul singer whose 1964 recording of The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss) became a Billboard Top 10 hit; in Beloit, Wisconsin. She was considered a major talent but had only a few other minor hits. RETIREMENT...
...Charles Dawson announces that he has found the fossilized remains of a human-like creature on Piltdown Common in Sussex, England. Christened Eoanthropus dawsoni, "Piltdown Man" will be exposed as a fraud...
...surprisingly, the new books are controversial. Jacob Neusner, professor of religious studies at the University of South Florida, calls the Jesus Seminar "either the greatest scholarly hoax since the Piltdown Man or the utter bankruptcy of New Testament studies -- I hope the former." Other scholars question the use of the Thomas and the hypothetical Q. The effect is like looking through the wrong end of a telescope at a vanishing Jesus. In his forthcoming The Gospel of Jesus (Westminster), William R. Farmer, professor emeritus of the New Testament at Southern Methodist University, decries the latest Q theory because it leads...