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?