Piltdown Man - Timeline

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.
• 1914: Talgai skull (Australia) found, considered, at the time, to confirm Piltdown.
• 1925: Edmonds reports Piltdown geology error. Report ignored.
• 1943: Fluorine content test is first proposed.
• 1948: Woodward publishes The Earliest Englishman
• 1949: Fluorine content test establishes Piltdown man as relatively recent.
• 1953: Weiner, Le Gros Clark, and Oakley expose the hoax.