In 1912 it was the greatest anthropological find of all time, the earliest known link between man and ape. Then, forty years later, it was revealed to be an audacious hoax. This week, the strange story of Piltdown Man.
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Key sources for this episode include Miles Russell's Piltdown Man: The Secret Life of Charles Dawson and the World's Greatest Archaeological Hoax; John Evangelist Walsh's Unraveling Piltdown: The Science Fraud of the Century and Its Solution; Sir Arthur Smith Woodward's The Earliest Englishman; J.S. Weiner's The Piltdown Forgery; and Lydia Pyne's Seven Skeletons: The Evolution of the World's Most Famous Human Fossils.
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