Piltdown Man hoax
1912 · Event
'The earliest Englishman' — a human skull with an orangutan jaw, planted in a Sussex gravel pit — is unveiled to the Geological Society. It warped human-origins research for forty years before being exposed as a forgery in 1953.
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