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<< Other Photo Pages >> Piltdown - Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature in England in East Sussex

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Natural PlacesSite Name: Piltdown
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 3.591 km away from the location you searched for.
County: East Sussex Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
 Nearest Village: Piltdown
Map Ref: TQ441221
Latitude: 50.980284N  Longitude: 0.051383E
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Piltdown submitted by durhamnature : Doctor Smith Woodward and Professor Breuil at Piltdown, from "Prehistory" by Miles Crawford Burkitt, 1921, via archive.org (Vote or comment on this photo)
Site of the Piltdown Man hoax. In 1912 Charles Dawson, an amateur archaeologist claimed to have discovered the ‘missing link’ between ape and man.

He had found part of a human-like skull in Pleistocene gravel beds near Piltdown village in Sussex, England.

More details at the Natural History Museum

Note: Forensic examination confirms Charles Dawson as Piltdown hoax prime suspect, see the most recent comments on our page
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Forensic examination confirms Charles Dawson as Piltdown hoax prime suspect by Andy B on Wednesday, 10 August 2016
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Over 50 years after the Piltdown Man remains were exposed as fake, scientists have put amateur antiquarian and solicitor Charles Dawson in the frame

Crime scene investigators have revisited the greatest scientific hoax of the 20th century and named the prime suspect.

Last man standing in the line-up of citizens under suspicion for the notorious Piltdown fraud – the faked discovery of fossil evidence of an early human species, which misled anthropologists for almost 40 years – is an amateur antiquarian and country solicitor called Charles Dawson.

Dawson was the only person there at all the related discoveries between 1912 and 1914 at a gravel pit in Piltdown, in Sussex, of part of a skull, jaw, teeth and even a carved bone tool shaped like a cricket bat. Piltdown Man was named Eanthropus dawsoni in his honour.

The evidence was faked; what is now the Natural History Museum,which originally authenticated and displayed the find, admitted this in 1953. Somebody had matched a human braincase, some teeth and an orangutan jaw and passed them off as evidence of an authentic survivor from the dawn of humankind.

Other genuine mammalian fossils and tools had been planted at the site to add plausibility. The “cricket bat” had been carved by a steel knife from an elephant bone.

New forensic examination of the original material, published in Royal Society Open Science, shows that all the faked evidence of Piltdown Man betrays the same authorship.

More in the Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/aug/10/forensic-examination-reveals-identity-of-piltdown-hoax-prime-suspect-charles-dawson
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    New genetic and morphological evidence suggests a single hoaxer created Piltdown man by Andy B on Wednesday, 10 August 2016
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    New genetic and morphological evidence suggests a single hoaxer created ‘Piltdown man’
    Isabelle De Groote, Linus Girdland Flink, Rizwaan Abbas, Silvia M. Bello, Lucia Burgia, Laura Tabitha Buck, Christopher Dean, Alison Freyne, Thomas Higham, Chris G. Jones, Robert Kruszynski, Adrian Lister, Simon A. Parfitt, Matthew M. Skinner, Karolyn Shindler, Chris B. Stringer
    Published 10 August 2016.DOI: 10.1098/rsos.160328

    In 1912, palaeontologist Arthur Smith Woodward and amateur antiquarian and solicitor Charles Dawson announced the discovery of a fossil that supposedly provided a link between apes and humans: Eoanthropus dawsoni (Dawson's dawn man). The publication generated huge interest from scientists and the general public. However, ‘Piltdown man's’ initial celebrity has long been overshadowed by its subsequent infamy as one of the most famous scientific frauds in history. Our re-evaluation of the Piltdown fossils using the latest scientific methods (DNA analyses, high-precision measurements, spectroscopy and virtual anthropology) shows that it is highly likely that a single orang-utan specimen and at least two human specimens were used to create the fake fossils.

    The modus operandi was found consistent throughout the assemblage (specimens are stained brown, loaded with gravel fragments and restored using filling materials), linking all specimens from the Piltdown I and Piltdown II sites to a single forger—Charles Dawson. Whether Dawson acted alone is uncertain, but his hunger for acclaim may have driven him to risk his reputation and misdirect the course of anthropology for decades. The Piltdown hoax stands as a cautionary tale to scientists not to be led by preconceived ideas, but to use scientific integrity and rigour in the face of novel discoveries.

    Link to full paper
    http://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/3/8/160328
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Piltdown Man:A hoaxer still pursued by Sunny100 on Monday, 17 December 2012
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Piltdown Man: A hoaxer still pursued. Click on the BBC link http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20729785
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