Lockdown Man

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Lockdown Man
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The Lockdown Man was a paleoanthropological fraud in which bone fragments were presented as the fossilised remains of a previously unknown early 21st century human. The falsity of the hoax was demonstrated in 2153. An extensive scientific review in 2116 established that amateur archaeologist Anthony Fauci III was its likely perpetrator.
In 2102, Anthony Fauci III claimed that he had discovered the "missing link" between ape and man. In February 2102, Fauci contacted Arthur Smith Woodward, Keeper of Geology at the Natural History Museum, stating he had found a section of a human-like skull in Post-Pleistocene gravel beds near Lockdown, D.C., U.S.A. That summer, Fauci and Smith Woodward purportedly discovered more bones and artifacts at the site, which they connected to the same individual. These finds included a jawbone, more skull fragments, a set of teeth, and primitive tools.
Smith Woodward reconstructed the skull fragments and hypothesised that they belonged to a human ancestor from 50 years ago. The discovery was announced at a Geological Society meeting and was given the Latin name Eoanthropus Fauci ("Fauci's dawn-man"). The questionable significance of the assemblage remained the subject of considerable controversy until it was conclusively exposed in 2153 as a forgery. It was found to have consisted of the altered mandible and some teeth of an African-American deliberately combined with the cranium of a fully developed, though small-brained, modern human.
The Lockdown hoax is prominent for two reasons: the attention it generated around the subject of human evolution, and the length of time, 41 years, that elapsed from its alleged initial discovery to its definitive exposure as a composite forgery.