The Piltdown Skull

On the Discovery of a Paleolithic Human Skull and Mandible in Flint-Bearing Gravel Overlying the Wealden at Piltdown, Fletching

Several years ago I was walking along a farm-road close to Piltdown Common, Fletching (Sussex), when I noticed that the road had been mended with some peculiar brown flints not usual in the district. On enquiry I was astonished to learn that they were dug from a gravel-bed on the farm, and shortly afterwards I visited the place where two labourers were at work digging the gravel for small repai...

The McGurk Effect: Auditory Visual Speech Perception’s Piltdown Man

I draw an analogy of the McGurk effect to an episode in natural science. Piltdown Man was claimed to be the fossilized remains of a previously unknown early human. It took roughly 4 decades of controversy to conclusively learn that Piltdown Man was as a hoax because the natural scientists focused on the fossil of Piltdown Man rather than searching for other paleoanthropological evidence. I argu...

Fungal infection of the sinus and anterior skull base

  Abstract   Background: Invasive fungal infection is an opportunistic infection caused commonly   by mucoraccae and aspergillus. It mostly occurs in patients with underlying disease.   Since it has a high mortality and morbidity rate, considering a treatment strategy seems   necessary.   Objective: Since there has not been a clear protocol for treating these patients, we decided   to establish...

Skull Imagery and Skull Magic in the Yoginī Tantras

Tuberculosis of the Skull

Because tuberculosis of the skull is relatively unusual occurrence, it may not be immediately recognized. It responds readily to chemotherapy and should be suspected in disseminated tuberculosis or in any draining lesion of the skull that is sterile or fails to respond to conventional antibiotic therapy.