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Piltdown Hoax Reexamined As Geologist Suspect
New evidence suggests Piltdown Man was a deliberate hoax staged by Prof William Sollas with Charles Dawson and Sir Arthur Smith Woodward named as fooled parties. James Douglas, who worked with Sollas, says the fake skull and jawbone were aged with potassium bichromate and cites circumstantial but telling testimony from a 93 year old in a late career recount.
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London
Piltdown
Sir Arthur
Smith Woodward
British Museum
Sussex
Charles Dawson
William Sollas
James Douglas
Sollas
Oxford
Douglas
Dawson
Bolivia
Department of Human Anatomy
Sir Arthur Smith Woodward
Isle of Man
Piltdown Man
Richard Ford