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Fluorine Absorption Dating

A relative dating method comparing fluorine uptake in buried bone; Kenneth Oakley's fluorine tests on the Piltdown remains between 1949 and 1953 showed they were far younger than claimed and helped expose the forgery.

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  • Piltdown Manpresented 1912; exposed 1953

    Fluorine Absorption Dating was used to analyse Piltdown Man — Kenneth Oakley's fluorine tests (1949–1953) showed the remains were far too young, precipitating the full exposure of 1953.

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What Was the Piltdown Man Hoax?

The Piltdown Man hoax: how a human skull and an orang-utan jaw passed as the missing link for 40 years, how tests exposed it, and who the forger was.