Timeline
- 1908: Dawson claims discovery of first Piltdown fragments.
- 1912 February: Dawson contacts Woodward about first skull fragments.
- 1912 June: Dawson, Woodward, and Teilhard form digging team.
- 1912 June: Team finds elephant molar, skull fragment.
- 1912 June: Right parietal skull bones and the jaw bone discovered.
- 1912 November: News breaks in the popular press.
- 1912 December: Official presentation of Piltdown man.
- 1913: David Waterston concludes the sample to be an ape mandible and a human skull.
- 1914: Talgai skull (Australia) found, considered, at the time, to confirm Piltdown.
- 1915: Marcellin Boule concludes the sample to be an ape mandible and a human skull. Gerrit Smith Miller concludes the jaw is from a fossil ape.
- 1923: Franz Weidenreich reports the remains consist of a modern human cranium and orang utan jaw with filed-down teeth.
- 1925: Edmonds reports Piltdown geology error. Report ignored.
- 1943: Fluorine content test is first proposed.
- 1948: The Earliest Englishman by Woodward is published (posthumously).
- 1949: Fluorine content test establishes Piltdown man as relatively recent.
- 1953: Weiner, Le Gros Clark, and Oakley expose the hoax.
- 2003: Full nature of Charles Dawson's career in fakes is exposed.
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