Piltdown Man
The\xa0Piltdown Man\xa0was a\xa0paleoanthropological\xa0fraud in which bone fragments were presented as the\xa0fossilised\xa0remains of a previously unknown\xa0early human. Although there were doubts about its authenticity virtually from the beginning, the remains were still broadly accepted for many years, and the falsity of the hoax was only definitively demonstrated in 1953. An extensive scientific review in 2016 established that amateur archaeologist\xa0Charles Dawson\xa0was responsible for the fraudulent evidence.
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