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==Timeline== *1908: Dawson claims discovery of first Piltdown fragments. *1912 February: Dawson contacts Woodward about first skull fragments. *1912 June: Dawson, Woodward, and Teilhard de Chardin 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 (anatomist)|David Waterston]] concludes that the sample is an ape mandible and a human skull. *1914: [[Talgai Skull]] (Australia) found, and considered (at the time) to confirm Piltdown. *1915: Marcellin Boule concludes that the sample is an ape mandible and a human skull. Gerrit Smith Miller concludes the jaw is from a fossil ape. *1916 August: Dawson dies. *1923: Franz Weidenreich reports the remains consist of a modern human cranium and orangutan jaw with filed-down teeth. *1925: Edmonds reports Piltdown geology error. Report ignored. *1943: [[Fluorine absorption dating|Fluorine content test]] is first proposed. *1948: ''The Earliest Englishman'' by Woodward is published (posthumously). *1949: [[Fluorine absorption dating|Fluorine content test]] establishes Piltdown Man as relatively recent. *1953: Weiner, [[Wilfrid Le Gros Clark|Le Gros Clark]], and [[Kenneth Oakley|Oakley]] expose the hoax. *2003: Full extent of [[Charles Dawson]]'s career in forgeries is exposed. *2016: Study reveals method of Dawson's forgery.
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