The 1912 English "Missing Link" Fossils Piltdown Man Hoax
In 1912, a British amateur archaeologist announced a major discovery in Piltdown Village, Sussex. While exploring Pleistocene gravel beds, Charles Dawson found a human-like skull fragment and informed the Natural History Museum. Dawson and the museum’s geology keeper, Arthur Smith Woodward, returned to the gravel bed and found more skull fragments, a jawbone, primitive tools, …