Piltdown Man
‘The earliest Englishman was nothing more than a cheap fraud’
In the centenary year of the discovery of the hoax, Dr Miles Russell, Senior Lecturer in prehistoric and Roman Archaeology has spoken to the Observer about the Piltdown Man. Between 1908 and 1912 human skull fragments, an ape-like jaw and flints were found close to the Sussex village of Piltdown. The discovery was, at the [...]
