The Piltdown Man Hoax

Episode 153. Charles Dawson wanted to go down in history as a respected archeologist. But the choices he made left him with a legacy of a fraud and tricked the scientific community for over four decades.    Follow us on Instagram!  https://www.instagram.com/illequippedhistory/   Join our Facebook group!  https://www.facebook.com/groups/illequippedhistory   Email us!  [email protected]   Check us out on TikTok!  https://www.tiktok.com/@illequipped.histo   Find us on YouTube!  https://www.youtube.com/@Ill-EquippedHistory    Donate to our Patreon!  https://www.patreon.com/illequippedhistory     Sources:  https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/do53pi.html   https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce3gvpz427po   https://www.sciencehistory.org/stories/magazine/the-problem-of-piltdown-man/   Worlds greatest Hoaxes: TV show    https://www.lindahall.org/about/news/scientist-of-the-day/charles-dawson/   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dawson#Alleged_discoveries   https://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-fossils/species/homo-heidelbergensis