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Language Experiment

 PART ONE:    I decided to use my boyfriend as my partner in this experiment.  I told him I was coming over to see him and I will be conducting an experiment for my Physical Anthropology class.  I decided not to share the rules or details because I thought it would make the experiment more fun for me.  When I arrived at his apartment I gave him a hug and smiled.  He started talking right away with the usual, "How are you? How was the drive? Are you hungry? I missed you," and other random questions.  I nodded my head to answer a few of my questions and then he started noticing that I was not speaking.  This concerned him at first, he thought I was mad or upset about something.  After speaking his concerns, he put two and two together and asked, "Wait...Is this part of your experiment?"  I nodded my head yes.   He then went on to ask "why" which is kind of hard to answer with your head or facial expressions so I just shrugged....

The Piltdown Hoax!

  In early 1900’s England, an amatuer archaeologist, Charles Dawson claimed to have found remains of an ancient human skull in the little town of Piltdown.  Acclaimed geologist, Arthur Smith Woodward, and paleontologist Father Teilhard de Chardin joined Dawson in studying the fossils.  Together they studied and announced the findings of what seemed like a human jaw and other parts of a human skull that seemed to date back about a million year.  They based this information off of animal fossils that could help date surrounding remains.  The piece of ancient human jaw bone they seemed to discover supported the idea of a human creature with remaining qualities of an ape.  During the time of discovery, scientists had already found ancient human remains in France, Germany, and parts of Asia, but definitely not England which may have urged English scientists to push the idea that these ancient humans could have also survived in England.  After their announce...