Mystery AtlasNatural History Museum, London
The museum that housed and championed the Piltdown remains, exposed the forgery through the 1953 investigation by Weiner, Le Gros Clark, and Oakley, and led the 2016 study tracing the fakes to a single forger.
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People
Natural History Museum, London had as a member Arthur Smith Woodward — Keeper of Geology at the museum during the Piltdown announcements.
Creatures & Figures
Natural History Museum, London investigated Beast of Bodmin Moor — The Natural History Museum forensically identified the July 1995 River Fowey skull find as an imported leopard-skin rug rather than evidence of a living animal.
Objects & Artifacts
- Piltdown Manpresented 1912; exposed 1953
Natural History Museum, London investigated Piltdown Man — The 1953 investigation by Weiner, Le Gros Clark, and Oakley exposed the forgery; the museum's 2016 study traced the fakes to a single forger, most plausibly Dawson.
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What Did the Government Find on Bodmin Moor?
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What Was the Piltdown Man Hoax?
The Piltdown Man hoax: how a human skull and an orang-utan jaw passed as the missing link for 40 years, how tests exposed it, and who the forger was.