Video: 'Piltdown Man Hoax on Discovery Science'

(Wednesday, December 18, 1912) — The Piltdown Man made its public debut today as fossil collector Charles Dawson reported to the Geological Society of London his discovery of supposedly fragmented early human remains at a gravel pit in Piltdown, East Sussex, England.

More than four decades later, the Piltdown Man was exposed as a hoax.