The Piltdown Hoax: How a Fossil Forgery Fooled the World

In the early 20th century, a discovery in southern England rocked the world of science and sparked a heated debate about the origins of humanity. Cut to archival footage of Charles Dawson and Arthur Smith Woodward examining fossils. In 1908, amateur archaeologist Charles Dawson and geologist Arthur Smith Woodward announced the discovery of a new species of early human, which they called Eoanthropus Dawsoni, or the Piltdown Man.