How Charles Dawson's 1912 Piltdown Hoax Misled Scientists for Decades
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In December 1912, amateur archaeologist Charles Dawson and Arthur Smith Woodward of London’s Natural History Museum presented a skull and jaw to a Geological Society meeting. The bones came from a gravel pit at Piltdown, in East Sussex, England. They named the find Eoanthropus dawsoni, or “Dawson’s …
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