Fake Fossils and Old Print Coverage of the Piltdown Man (IMAGE)

University of Cambridge

Fake Fossils and Old Print Coverage of the Piltdown Man

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The faked fossilized remains of Piltdown man (stained to look old), newspaper articles from the 1950s exposing the fraud. Inset: Charles Dawson, who the new article claims is probably the sole fraudster.

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Natural History Museum

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