Piltdown Man: Dawson and Smith-Woodward search for more bone

Seeking remains of the oldest known Englishman: looking for relics of the Piltdown Man. Charles Dawson and A. Smith-Woodward searching for other parts of the skeleton on the site of the first discovery at Piltdown, East Sussex. In 1953, the find was proved to be a hoax, a combination of the skull of a medieval man, the jaw of an orangutan, and chimpanzee teeth

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