Mystery AtlasCharles Dawson
The Sussex solicitor and amateur antiquarian who produced the Piltdown finds; modern analyses of the forgery's materials and of his other 'discoveries', dozens of which were also faked, point to him as the sole forger.
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People
Charles Dawson is frequently compared to Konrad Kujau — Both forged historical evidence that fooled credentialled experts for a period before physical testing exposed it.
Objects & Artifacts
- Piltdown Manpresented 1912; exposed 1953
Charles Dawson discovered Piltdown Man — Dawson presented the first fragments in 1912; the 2016 Natural History Museum study identified his hand across the forged material.