Archive for August, 2009

Anthropologist stumbles over faked skulls

An incredible affair of faked skulls has found its inglorious end at a district court in Frankfurt, Germany. Reiner Protsch von Zieten, a previous highly respected professor of anthropology, was given an 18-month suspended sentence. Protsch had been debunked some years ago of systematically falsifying the dates of numerous major stone-age relics (see the Guardian […]