The Piltdown hoax was an archaeological site in England in 1908 and 1912 human, ape and other mammal fossils were found together. In 1913 at a nearby site an ape's jaw with a canine tooth that was worn down like a human's. British paleontologist gad the idea that a creature that had a human cranium and an ape's jaw existed. In 1953 a Piltdown man was exposed as a forgery, the skull had in fact been modern and the teeth had been filed down. Charles Dawson was the archaeologist who brought in the first cranial fragments from Piltdown. The Piltdown forgery had so many scientist fooled, in this century anthropologists believed in cultural prejudice which considered man's big brain, the evolution theory.
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fossil discoveries in Piltdown show a