[TheGeezer]

Hmmmm...maybe he conformed his work to a modernist philosophy that demanded 20,000- to 30,000-year ages for human remains? I'm no creationist, but "having to rewrite history" is no minor assessment of what may be a major academic hoax, and one that lasted a lot longer, and had a lot more influence, than Piltdown Man.

Fascinating.

[ovrtaxt]

Frankfurt University's president, Rudolf Steinberg, apologized for the university's failure to curb Protsch's misconduct for decades. "A lot of people looked the other way," he said.

Sounds like a case of willful, active ignorance to me.

[elli1]

Isn't there a major problem w/ the climate around Zeiten in that he was able to pass off the skulls of modern man as Neanderthal? I'm not an expert & I probably wouldn't know the difference, but I would think that other anthropologists should have raised some questions long ago. At least in the one case, the skull was intact--that is, not just a couple of little pieces of bone.