User:Abyssal/Prehistory of Europe/DYK/18


 * ... that after his death William Johnson Sollas was implicated in the Piltdown Man hoax by his assistant, J.A. Douglas?
 * ... that a fossil of Concavodonta described in 1843 has been lost?
 * ... that haematite found during the excavation of Nympsfield Long Barrow may have been used to make face-paint, so that the dead could appear alive?
 * ... that the extinct planthopper Ordralfabetix is named for a character from The Adventures of Asterix?
 * ... that the fossil big-headed fly Priabona is named for the age of the rocks in which it was found?
 * ... that members of the extinct bivalve family Bakevelliidae have shells made from rectangular calcium prisms and mother of pearl?
 * ... that members of the extinct bivalve genus Hemiconcavodonta are unique in the subfamily Concavodontinae in that their teeth point in two directions?
 * ... that most of the skeletons found at Talheim Death Pit, a mass grave in Germany dating to 5000 BC, show signs of skull trauma, and scientists have concluded that those buried there were victims of genocide?
 * ... that Bristol Diamonds were popular souvenirs for visitors to the spa at Hotwells, Bristol in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?
 * ...that Gavrinis, an island in the Gulf of Morbihan off the coast of Brittany, France, has a rich abundance of megalithic art from the New Stone Age?