Piltdown Man: The Secret Life of Charles Dawson

The human and animal remains discovered at Piltdown, near Lewes in Sussex almost 100 years ago were at the time hailed as the'missing link'between ape and man. It was not until 1953 that modern analysis conclusively revealed an ingenious hoax. The perpetrator was almost certainly the antiquarian excavator Charles Dawson who, as Miles Russell shows, was responsible for sixteen other archaeological forgeries during his lifetime.