Who Was Piltdown Man?

<p>Once upon a time, in a gravel pit just outside the East Sussex village of Piltdown, a pair of workmen dug up what they thought was a fossilized coconut. Thinking it was a piece of trash, they smashed it with their shovels and flung the pieces aside. But when it was time to leave for the day, one of these unnamed workmen tucked a piece in his pocket. He had just remembered a rich lawyer living in nearby Hastings, who was known to pay cash for odd bits of fossils.</p> <p>The workmen pass out of the story the moment they sell the fossil fragment to the Hastings lawyer. But here things begin to come into focus because the lawyer (unlike the workmen) is a real person: fortyish, stout, mustachioed, the image of British respectability. His name is Charles Dawson, and he is either the luckiest archaeologist/anthropologist/fossil hunter in the history of humankind &hellip; or something else entirely.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/@ella.lesatele/who-was-piltdown-man-9692da4a1bcc"><strong>Click Here</strong></a></p>