Piltdown Man was a paleoanthropological hoax in which bone fragments were presented as fossils of a previously unknown early human. Although there were doubts about its authenticity from the beginning, the remains were still widely accepted for many years, and evidence of fraud was only revealed in 1953. An extensive scientific review in 2016 established that amateur archaeologist Charles Dawson was responsible for evidence of fraud.
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