Aug 24, 2022
The Piltdown Man was a paleoanthropological fraud
in which bone fragments were presented as the fossilised remains
of a previously unknown early human.
Although there were doubts about its authenticity virtually from
the beginning, the remains were still broadly accepted for many
years, and the falsity of the hoax was only definitively
demonstrated in 1953. An extensive scientific review in 2016
established that amateur archaeologist Charles
Dawson was responsible for the fraudulent evidence.
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