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Piltdown man: Media

anthropological hoax

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Piltdown man
Replica of the fraudulent Piltdown man cranium.
© Bone Clones, www.boneclones.com
jaw of Piltdown man
One of the fossilized fragments presented as part of the Piltdown man hoax was a...
© The Natural History Museum, London/Science Source
gravels of Barkham Manor at Piltdown Common
Charles Dawson, an English lawyer and amateur geologist, (left) and Arthur Smith...
© The Natural History Museum, London/Science Source
Piltdown man memorial
Sir Arthur Smith Woodward stands next to the memorial marking the site of the discovery...
© The Natural History Museum, London/Science Source
Piltdown man hoax uncovered
Amateur paleontologist Alvan T. Marston shows that the Piltdown skull fossil is made...
© Maurice Ambler/Hulton Archive—Picture Post/Getty Images