Tag: Piltdown

Near the small town of Piltdown, about 60 kilometers from London, Charles Dawson (died in 1916), a lawyer and amateur archaeologist, conducted excavations in February 1912 and discovered fragments of a human skull. He had no doubt that he had found the remains of a prehistoric man.In 1871, Charles D...

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 ...