Replicas of the Piltdown Man, which was termed an unscrupulous hoax by British scientists, are on display at the American ...

"Piltdown Man Hoax Is Exposed," announced the New York Times on November 21, 1953. "Part of the skull of the Piltdown man, one of the most famous fossil skulls in the world, has been declared a ...

He had found part of a human-like skull in Pleistocene gravel beds near Piltdown village in Sussex, England. Dawson wrote to Arthur Smith Woodward, Keeper of Geology at the Natural History Museum at ...

SINCE the discovery of the fragments of the Piltdown skull in 1912, there has been considerable difference of opinion with regard to the manner in which the skull should be reconstructed ...

Is Piltdown Man a "missing link"? Both critics and proponents of evolution eagerly await the discovery of a "missing link" between humans and other primates. The fossil skull called Piltdown Man ...

On Dec. 18, 1912, fossilized remains later called the Piltdown Man were supposedly found in the Piltdown Gravel Pit outside Sussex, England, by amateur archaeologist Charles Dawson. Although there ...