In Search of Piltdown Man

The case of the Piltdown Man is the most notorious hoax in the history of palaeoanthropology.Early in 1912, Charles Dawson, a respected Sussex solicitor and keen amateur archaeologist showed palaeontologist Arthur Smith Woodward at the Natural History Museum in London two skull fragments he had found in a gravel pit near the village of Piltdown, Sussex. The pair instigated a search for further rem...