The Piltdown Man artifacts exhibited at the Natural History Museum, London

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The Piltdown Man artifacts include a broken jawbone from an orangutan. The sculpted head is an artists impression of how Piltdown Man may have looked based on these artifacts that were exhibited at the Natural History Museum, London from 25 Nov 2003 to 20 Feb 2004. Piltdown Man was found in 1912 by Charles Dawson and confirmed by Dr Arthur Smith Soodward of the British Museum in 1949. In 1953 Dr Kenneth Oakley ran tests on the remains which were inconclusive. Professor Joseph Weiner, Professor Sir Wilfrid Le Gros Clark and Dr Oakley revealed that Piltdown Man was a fake. Investigations carried on over the years and in 2003 former British Museum employees Martin Hinton and Charles Chatwin were named as the probable hoaxers, apparently having set out to discredit Dr Smith Woodward, their boss at the museum.

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Size: 3402px × 5148px
Location: The Natural History Museum, London, UK
Photo credit: © Mike Goldwater / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: anatomy, anthropology, archaeology, arrangement, array, artifact, bones, display, evolution, exhibit, face, fake, fragments, fraud, hoax, presentation, remains, sculpture